Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Yesterday, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, found in favour of Ms Jane Crowe, former Debenhams worker and shop steward in Henry Street and, by extension, hundreds of other Debenhams workers who were cruelly treated and let down by their employer, Debenhams, and KPMG, the liquidators. The ruling found that the liquidators did not consult the workers properly and did not give them the information they sought.

They met the Taoiseach in the corridor when we were screening the new documentary film about their dispute that is going into the cinemas, "406 Days", which shows how a consortium of banks and vulture funds asset-stripped the company and walked away with hundreds of millions of euro while the workers were left with nothing. When they met the Taoiseach in the corridor, they asked him when legislation will come forward to ensure what happened to Debenhams workers, and Clerys workers, never happens again? The Taoiseach said he would engage directly with the Debenhams workers about the framing of that legislation and consult them. Can the Minister confirm that will happen, and when?

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