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- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----of lone parents by €16.40 a week.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: Fianna Fáil also cut the minimum wage by €1 an hour. Lone parents in Fianna Fáil's time-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----of the kind that Deputy Stagg is talking about lost €16 a week.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: If they were working 15 hours a week-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----they actually lost a further €15.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: They were actually down €30 a week.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: That is the Deputies' legacy. They do not seem to remember it.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: You have some records, lads.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: You have some records.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I have had the opportunity to meet a number of the Clerys workers, many of whom were there for 40 years or more. I want to say formally on the record of the Dáil that I thank SIPTU for making its premises available to facilitate the Department of Social Protection going in and giving very extensive help and assistance to workers in relation to their entitlements. The people who come...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----I suggest he is advocating such a tactic not out of a lack of concern for the workers but possibly out of a lack of experience of dealing with the issues that arise in legislation from the Clerys case.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: The workers in this case come first. In conjunction with the staff of the Departments of Social Protection and Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, the Minister of State, Deputy Nash, and I have put together-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: -----a service for the Clerys workers that will enable them to access their entitlements regardless of the broader legal issues. Some very broad and deep legal issues are arising from the manner in which this insolvency was structured. I refer to the group structure of companies. The Deputy needs to be very careful with what he is suggesting. The use of group structures by companies in...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: To be honest, the Deputy has been throwing a lot of stuff around like snuff at a wake. The important and significant report that has been put together by the Minister of State, Deputy Nash, sets out in clinical detail the sequence of the history of the events that happened. It also sets out how and where company law operates in Ireland at the moment. We will have a very detailed...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: When?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy needs to give us the "over and over again".
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: When?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I would be grateful if the Deputy would give us the data on the multiple cases to which he refers. To my knowledge, what happened in Clerys and the way the company behaved in such a predatory fashion to workers is, thankfully, rather unusual among Irish companies and employers.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: The Deputy should send me the details. He said there were multiple examples. I know of a couple of examples but the Deputy has spoken about multiples. I do not know what that means to the Deputy, but it sounds like many cases to me.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
Joan Burton: I would like to have the details of the many cases. The liquidators in this case have been appointed and I understand they met on 8 July. As the Deputy knows, there will be a committee to deal with the liquidation. When the liquidation gets under way, at that point the liquidators will have identified the due entitlements of the workers under redundancy and insolvency legislation, which...