Written answers

Thursday, 7 December 2006

Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Job Losses

7:00 pm

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 133: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the workers made redundant from the Irish Glass Bottle Company are to receive moneys from the sale of the site on which the company was located. [42136/06]

Photo of Tony KilleenTony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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It is this Department's function to ensure that redundant employees receive their full statutory redundancy entitlements. There are no legislative provisions in operation for this Department to compel the Irish Glass Bottle Company to pay amounts over and above the statutory redundancy lump sums to redundant workers from the proceeds of the sale of the site on which the company was located.

Photo of Joe HigginsJoe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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Question 134: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative situation which allowed a company or its successor (details supplied) to hive off its main asset, the site on which the company was located, and plead that there were no assets to make redundancy payments to the workforce. [42137/06]

Photo of Tony KilleenTony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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In accordance with the provisions of the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2003, the company concerned paid the employees their full statutory redundancy entitlements. A 60% rebate amounting to approximately €1.3 million was paid to the company on foot of these redundancies.

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