Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 7 December 2006
133 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the workers made redundant from the Irish Glass Bottle Company are to receive moneys from the sale of the site on which the company was located. [42136/06]
Amharc ar fhreagraIt is this Department's function to ensure that redundant employees receive their full statutory redundancy entitlements. There are no legislative provisions in operation for this Department to compel the Irish Glass Bottle Company to pay amounts over and above the statutory redundancy lump sums to redundant workers from the proceeds of the sale of the site on which the company was located.
134 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative situation which allowed a company or its successor (details supplied) to hive off its main asset, the site on which the company was located, and plead that there were no assets to make redundancy payments to the workforce. [42137/06]
Amharc ar fhreagraIn accordance with the provisions of the Redundancy Payments Acts 1967 to 2003, the company concerned paid the employees their full statutory redundancy entitlements. A 60% rebate amounting to approximately €1.3 million was paid to the company on foot of these redundancies.
