Clerys workers are once again calling on the company that owns the building to meet with them to discuss its closure.

It has been 15 weeks since Natrium bought the iconic O’Connell Street store in Dublin and put it into liquidation, with the loss of 130 staff jobs and over 300 concession positions. In total, the taxpayer has been left with a bill of around €2.5m.

All staff have received statutory redundancy payments from the Department of Social Protection, but it has emerged 19 still haven’t been given their back pay.

SIPTU President Jack O’Connor joined former workers at a protest in Dublin city centre today:

Clerys ceased trading on June 12, following the appointment of Kieran Wallace and Eamonn Richardson of KPMG as liquidators of OCS Operations Limited, trading as Clerys.

The sale of the department store and the subsequent loss of hundreds of jobs was criticised when Clerys was split into a retail division, which was liquidated, and its assets were sold to an investment group.

In July, Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash said he expects the company's assets should be available to the liquidators, but if that is not the case, then the law will need to be changed.

At the time he recommended court action against the Natrium group to force them to contribute more towards redundancy payments.