Disabled Rehab workers faced with redundancy

Eighteen workers in the Rehab Group, many of them with disabilities, are to be made redundant next month in a selection process which Siptu claims takes no account of their disabilities.

The union has called on Rehab to suspend the redundancies until a working group of business, community and religious leaders attempt to access further contracts for the Galway recycling plant.

Labour TD Colm Keaveney has written to Joan Burton, social protection minister, requesting that she intervene in the plan.