Derek McDowell (Labour)

I wish to ask a question related to the amendment. This subsection appears to deal with situations where people are working for a public service body listed in the Schedule and moving into the Civil Service at some point in the next six weeks or in the six weeks before 31 March. Some arrangements have been made over the years with bodies which were moved or partly moved out of the public service. Team Aer Lingus is an example. It was separated from the public service and the Aer Lingus scheme and was effectively privatised. Employees were given letters of comfort and were told they would be entitled to return to the public service on terms that would apply to public servants. I am not asking about that case but I am aware that such an arrangement was made. The Minister will be aware that it was subject to legal challenge. Are there any other such arrangements involving bodies which were in the public service where people still hold letters of entitlement which allow them to return to the public service in the future? If so, it appears that those arrangements are being superseded, intentionally or otherwise, by this legislation.