Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Earlier today People Before Profit Deputies visited workers at the Iceland store on Talbot Street. These workers started occupying the store yesterday. They have been there through the night and staying away from their families. Why? Because, bluntly, they have been robbed by their employer. The workers are owed a collective tens of thousands of euro in unpaid wages and holiday pay. They are right to take a stand, to occupy and to demand that they are paid what they are owed. This situation has all the hallmarks of a tactical insolvency with echoes of the Debenhams situation. The company has gone into examinership on the basis of €36 million in debt, of which €34 million is owed to the parent company. It seems like an attempt to avoid paying workers what they are owed. Does the Taoiseach agree that the workers should be paid what they are owed?

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