Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 144: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to redundancy payment or any other payments in regard to their former employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6086/06]

Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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As a general rule, a redundancy situation exists where an employer requires fewer employees to do work of a particular kind or where a company goes into liquidation, receivership, decides to rationalise or reorganise or closes down. Other examples could include: partial closing down of a company; a decrease in an employer's requirements for workers with particular skills or qualifications; or an employer who requires fewer employees due to an economic recession.

If a redundancy situation existed when the person concerned was absent on sick leave, he could apply to his employer for a statutory redundancy lump sum payment. It should be borne in mind that the employer decides in the first instance whether a redundancy situation exists in the employment and who should be made redundant. From the information available to me, it appears that the person concerned has been on sick leave since 2004. While his entitlement to holiday pay is in respect of hours actually worked, he would have been entitled to payment for any public holidays occurring during the first 26 weeks of ordinary illness.