Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 728: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason a person (details supplied) in County Mayo was not allowed the weekly ceiling rate of €600 for a redundancy payment, which came into effect on 1 January 2005 in accordance with relevant statutory provisions, and was only allowed the old rate of €507.90; his views on whether this was an unfair assessment of redundancy payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40303/05]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Redundancy Payments (Lump Sum) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 695 of 2004), which increased the weekly pay ceiling for calculating statutory redundancy to €600 from €507.90, the critical date for determining whether the higher ceiling should apply in any particular case is the date on which notification of redundancy was issued. In the case of the employee concerned, the date of notification was 3 September 2004, well before 1 January 2005 when the regulations came into effect. Although the termination of employment date was 14 January 2005, the date used for redundancy calculation purposes is the date of notice of redundancy. As this preceded 1 January 2005, the old €507.90 ceiling applied.