Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have written to the Corporate Enforcement Authority to ask that it investigate if there are any potential breaches of company law in this case. Serious questions are arising as to what fitness and probity checks were carried out in respect of the directors. Who is really behind some of these companies? There are names, there are new companies, there is another company, there is Metron, and there is this guy Maniar. Then there are the pseudonyms and the other names people are using. It all comes back to the same company. It all comes back to Iceland, the parent company of which is shocked that it is now in examinership. This is not where it thought it would end up. Given the current situation at the food retailer, the treatment of the workers and the opaque nature of the new ownership, I encourage the Minister of State to also contact the Corporate Enforcement Authority. I will ask the following very specific questions. Is a follow-up meeting with Iceland planned? If so, when will it take place? Rather than waiting for a meeting, will the Minister of State, by means of the good old tradition of a phone call, seek assurances from the company regarding the future of the workers and the stores?

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