Joe O'Toole (Independent)

This is an honourable compromise from all sides and moves matters forward significantly; it is important that people would have trust and confidence in each other. On the related issue of the way in which trust and confidence flows between various groupings, I wish to put to the Minister of State an issue that was also current when we debated this matter on the last occasion here. I refer to how this flow of information relates to employees and, in particular, the question of redundancy. Is the Minister of State aware of where the application for redundancy from Irish Ferries currently stands? He will recall there was a major row on the issue and that I personally took——