Job Losses
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-22
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Joan Collins (I4C), Dublin South-Central

It was pointed out to me that when the Food Safety Authority of Ireland withdrew all imported frozen food from the shelves of Iceland, there were health and safety inspectors literally crawling all over the place the following day. When we raised the issue of wage theft, we did not get inspectors from the Labour Court in those stores to see what was going on. This just shows what kind of response there has been in respect of the workers. Project Point Technologies shares its address with many of Maniar's other companies. That businessman directs at least 18 of these companies. Ten are named as derivatives of Centz Retail Holdings Limited, which trades as Homesavers. Maniar is also the general director of this retail group. After Maniar's takeover of Iceland's Irish stores, a man called Mr. Priestley sent an email to all the workers saying he was the manager. Iceland Ireland changed its name to Metron Stores Limited. The company's previous directors had resigned and a Ms McCartney was appointed in their place. Ms McCartney, Metron's company secretary, is now Ice Cosec Service Limited, a vehicle that serves as secretary for the Maniar companies. There is something going on in the background here that we have not put our finger on yet.

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Sitting date: 2023-06-22