Derek McDowell (Labour)

The Minister said relatively few would be taken on in the interim. It would be of some importance to those individuals to know where they stand. The Minister also said they would in effect be employed by the interim boards and therefore, presumably, not form part of the staff at Dublin Airport authority and not explicitly get the benefit of the statutory guarantees here. It is important for anyone employed between now and next April to know that he or she is working in a grade comparable to those who already work with the company.