asked the Minister for the Environment if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby due to a cut-back in funds, Roscommon County Council propose to lay-off a substantial number of manual workers many of whom are on the Register of Pensionable Servants and if he will give details of: (i) the number of employees laid off and proposed to be laid off in each district engineer's area, (ii) if statutory provisions for lay-offs have been complied with, and (iii) the likely duration of the lay-off.
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