THE Fairgreen Filling Station on Limerick’s Ballysimon Road has closed down with the loss of eight jobs.
The business ceased trading last Thursday and staff were left without wages, holiday pay and documentation needed to apply for social welfare payments.
Fine Gael TD Kieran O’Donnell and local election candidate for Limerick City East, Sarah Lee Kiely, have since had meetings with workers and owners of the filling station with a view to securing payments.
“I worked with Deputy O’Donnell over the weekend to help secure the documentation needed for them to claim Jobseekers payments and I am satisfied they are now in a position to claim their entitlements,” said Ms Kiely.
She said she was confident that a new operator would be found for the well-known city filling station and hopes that a new tenant would be signed up in the next few weeks.
“I would be very supportive of the current workers being re-employed under any new operator. I will continue to work with Deputy O’Donnell and the workers to secure their monies and to facilitate a lease with a new operator that will secure employment at the filling station,” she concluded.
