Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, provides for the making of payments by employers to employees in respect of redundancy. The purpose of the Redundancy Payments Scheme is to compensate employees for the loss of their job by reason of redundancy in cases where the employer can prove to the satisfaction of my Department that they are unable to make the payment.

It is the employer’s responsibility to pay statutory redundancy payments to all eligible employees. In the event that an employer is unable to pay due to financial difficulties, an application from the employer on behalf of an employee may be submitted to the Department for payment from the Social Insurance Fund.

I can confirm that applications were submitted to my Department online under the Redundancy Payment Scheme, at the beginning of February 2024.

Processing of these applications is underway. The majority of the employees have now received their redundancy lump sum entitlement from my Department. Officials from my Department been actively engaging with the employer to resolve any outstanding queries that have arisen for the remaining applications that are currently under review.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.