Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

As Deputy Daly outlined, this is the last remaining domestic waste collection service in public control. We have big-picture concerns with the sale of this and what this means for the State provision of domestic waste collection services into the future. We also have very specific issues with the details of the sale. In this case, it is being sold by way of a share sale rather than an asset transfer, which avoids the application of the transfer of undertakings regulations, which would give some certainty to workers that their terms and conditions would be upheld after the sale. Far from being given any guarantee about their terms and conditions, the workers have been told they will be held as they are for the transition, but what guarantees has the Minister that the terms and conditions will not be downgraded, reduced or, in industry speak, "harmonised" following their integration into KWD Recycling?

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