Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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229. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the compensation and additional supports that will be provided to employees of companies currently involved in stocking and servicing self-service tobacco and vaping vending machines, who are at risk of losing their jobs when the ban under the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2024 takes effect on 31 August 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3985/25]

Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Ireland has a robust framework of legislative protections and supports for workers who lose their job. This includes:

• The Protection of Employment Act 1977, as amended, which requires employers in collective redundancy situations to consult with employees’ representatives and to notify the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment before implementing redundancies.
• The Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, which requires employers to pay statutory redundancy payment to eligible employees with more than two years’ service. Employers are also required to give at least two weeks’ notice under this Act before implementing a redundancy, distinct from any other statutory or contractual rights to minimum notice.
• The Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Act 1973, as amended, which obliges employers to give a certain level of notice to employees prior to dismissal, with the length of such notice dependant on the employee’s length of service,
• The Unfair Dismissals Act 1977, as amended, which protects employees with more than one year’s service from Unfair Dismissals.

• 5 employees where 21-49 are employed,
• 10 employees where 50-99 are employed,
• 10% of the employees where 100-299 are employed,
• 30 employees where 300 or more are employed.