Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 125: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options available to a person who has been made redundant who cannot get their former employer to complete a RP 50 redundancy form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5305/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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On 1 January 2011, the Department of Social Protection assumed responsibility for making redundancy payments from the Social Insurance Fund.

It is up to the employer in the first instance to make statutory redundancy payments to all eligible employees. If an employer is unable to make these payments, employees may claim from the Social Insurance Fund. In order to do this the employer must sign an RP50 form and submit certain financial documentation to the Redundancy Payments section of my Department. If the employer refuses to sign this form or submit the necessary documentation then the employee may take a case to the Employment Appeals Tribunal against his/her former employer by completing a Form T1(a) and submitting it to the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, EAT Section.