Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2020
853. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection when a statutory redundancy payment will be released for a person (details supplied) who ceased employment on 29 February 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32560/20]
View answerThe Redundancy Payments Acts provide an entitlement to a redundancy payment for employees who have at least two years’ service with their employer. The employer is responsible for paying this statutory redundancy entitlement to eligible employees.
Policy responsibility for this area transferred from my Department to the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation on 14th October 2020.
In situations where an employer is unable to make a statutory redundancy payment to an eligible employee, due to insolvency or financial inability to pay, the employer may make an application to this Department to pay it in the first instance under the provisions of the Redundancy Payments Scheme. The Department will then make the payment from the Social Insurance Fund on behalf of the employer and a debt will be raised against the employer for recovery of the debt to the Fund.
The Deputy will appreciate that I cannot comment on individual cases, other than to indicate that in the first instance the employee should apply directly to their employer for payment of their redundancy entitlement. If the employer is unable to make the payment, then an application signed by both employer and employee should be submitted to this Department under the Redundancy Payments Scheme. On receipt of the application the matter will be progressed.
