Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not talking about Aer Lingus but I hope the people there are listening closely. That could be a situation.

The Senator also mentioned other payments. Some employers might have had their own reasons in terms of staffing. Those issues will, more appropriately, be dealt with by the Workplace Relations Commission and not by Revenue. I stress that the Revenue Commissioners will not be involved in these types of issues but whatever the adjudications are they will implement them financially from the Revenue point of view.

The Senator requested that a Revenue's compliance report into Aer Lingus be published. She knows that we cannot publish details. However, the points raised in this debate need to be examined by Revenue, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, and the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation because this could affect redundancy payments down the road. I ask all Departments to take close note of the points made here today.