Seanad debates

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers

 

The officials from the Department went into TalkTalk and set up information sessions to ensure the poor unfortunate workers who were being made redundant at the click of a finger would get social welfare income support. This resulted in the social insurance system paying 60% of the redundancy cost. In other words, our system carried the bulk of the cost of transferring jobs in Ireland abroad. The figure pertaining to Dell was approximately €11 million. Senators should think about this. With regard to the 1,000 highly trained aircraft technicians in SR Technics in my constituency, the State picked up a large part of the tab - 60% - for their redundancy payments. This is the first year in which redundancy payments were dealt with in the Department of Social Protection. Previously, they fell under the employment remit. Some thinking must be done in this regard. Are we ultimately to pay a large subsidy for jobs to be transferred out of Ireland?

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