Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

Aer Lingus has, in line with standard procedure under the Protection of Employment Act 1977, written to my Department with notification of its intentions with regard to collective redundancies in the company. My Department is examining the correspondence and it will be dealt with in the normal way if and when a redundancy situationarises.

Should the company proceed to file claims for redundancy payment, the applications will be examined to see if they meet the eligibility criteria set down in the Redundancy Payments Acts. The Department does not comment publicly on any particular company's applications.

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