Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 262: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will comment on and advise in a case (details supplied) about the payment of industrial norms in redundancy. [20851/11]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Under the Redundancy Payments Acts all eligible employees are entitled to a statutory redundancy lump sum payment on being made redundant. The scheme provides that an employee is entitled to two weeks pay for every year of service, plus a bonus week, subject to the prevailing maximum ceiling on gross weekly pay that is currently set at €600.

The statutory redundancy scheme operated by the Department of Social Protection is concerned only with the statutory minimum payments to which employees are entitled. The payment of ex-gratia payments by the employer is a matter solely between the employer and employee.