asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he is aware that road-makers and repairers employed by the Dublin Corporation contractors have been refused payments of wet-time insurance, in cases where inclement weather prevented the working of a full week; and whether he will take the necessary steps to ensure that benefits will be paid to such workers in future.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Dublin Road Workers.
Road-makers and repairers employed by the Dublin Corporation contractors on the repair of roads other than roads on building sites or on land acquired for building purposes are not required to be insured under the Insurance (Intermittent Unemployment) Act, 1942, and, accordingly, benefits are not payable to them under the Act in respect of intermittent unemployment resulting from stoppages of work due to inclement weather. The scheme established under this Act is still on an experimental basis. It is included in the examination of social services that is at present being made. Until that examination is completed, no decision as to the future of the scheme can be announced.