Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the pay, conditions and pensions of the staff of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company will not be undermined in the course of the transfer of the company to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17788/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company as a Port of Regional Significance is designated under National Ports Policy 2013 to transfer to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. On transfer, the port company will be dissolved and the employees of the company will become employees of the local authority.

The Harbours Act 2015, enacted on 25 December 2015, provides the necessary legislative framework for transfer.

The Act makes provision for the protection of the conditions of service, remuneration and superannuation of the employees of a port company where the company is dissolved and transferred to the local authority.

In accordance with section 30 of the Act, the terms and conditions of service for employees, including terms and conditions relating to pay, will not be less favourable than those to which the employees were subject immediately prior to transfer.

In addition, section 31 provides that the existing staff pension scheme will continue in force and that employees who immediately before transfer were members of an existing staff pension scheme will, upon the transfer of the company, continue to be members of the scheme in accordance with the terms and conditions of that scheme.