Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 399: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason persons (details supplied) in Dublin have been waiting for more than a year to receive their redundancy payments; and the steps he will take to ensure they receive their redundancy payments without further delay. [34556/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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In February 2011, my Department issued grant aid to the Community Development Project, referred to in the question, towards the cost of statutory redundancy payments to the three employees, for their period of employment under the Local and Community Development Programme. This contribution was subject to a signed undertaking that the redundancy rebate paid by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (DJEI) would be refunded to my Department.

My Department is not the employer of the relevant CDP staff and that all employment related matters are solely for the Board of Directors of the CDP. The workers in question were engaged directly by the CDP, as an independent private limited company, and their contracts of employment were with the company.

Therefore, the payment of redundancy packages to employees, who are core funded under the Programme, is a matter for the Board of Directors of the Project.