The High Court will give its ruling tomorrow on an application by Gama Construction to restrain publication of a Department of Enterprise report into its Irish operations.
Lawyers for the company have claimed the report was compiled unlawfully and are seeking an injunction preventing its publication pending judicial review proceedings.
Maurice Collins SC for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment Micheál Martin said the report should be published in the public interest as most of Gama's contracts were public works contracts, financed by the Exchequer.
He also said the public needed to know that the serious allegations made against Gama regarding the treatment of its Turkish workers had been fully investigated.
Labour leader Pat Rabbitte has called for a full debate on how Gama was brought into Ireland once the High Court has ruled, and said the Tánaiste had 'sat on this scandal for three to four years'.
The Tánaiste said she had nothing to do with Gama coming to Ireland and said that like many responsible Ministers for Enterprise she encouraged employment in this country.
She pointed out that SIPTU had represented the Gama construction workers, and assured her department that everything was in order.
Ms Harney then told Mr Rabbitte, 'I've had to say no when deputies, including deputies from your party, lobbied me to give work permits to companies that were in breach of labour law'.
Meanwhile, the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, has said the Government will do everything in its power to ensure that Turkish workers who were employed on the construction of two new ESB power stations in the midlands will be fully paid.
Mr Cowen was speaking after ESB Chairman Tadhg O'Donoghue said the company has paid the Finnish firm Foster Wheeler the proper salary rate for the workers and this money had been passed on to Gama Construction.
Mr O'Donoghue said the ESB were optimistic that the workers who were present at the opening of the new Lough Ree Power Station in Lanesboro today would have the money they were owed by Gama in their pockets very shortly.
