Sir, – The recall of the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to Ireland, Khalid Nasser Rashed Lootah, is to be commended (“UAE recalls ambassador who treated women ‘like slaves”, December 1st).
However, the €240,000 award made by the Employment Appeals Tribunal to three Filipina women employed by the ambassador, and his wife Mehra Metad Alghubaisi, should be paid immediately as justice delayed is justice denied. Diplomatic immunity, as claimed by the ambassador, is not acceptable in these circumstances of gross injustice.
The United Arab Emirates has the seventh largest reserves of oil in the world and the 17th largest gas reserves.
With such wealth at its disposal, there is no reason why this just award should not be paid, as a matter of urgency, to these three exploited women. – Yours, etc, BRENDAN BUTLER, Malahide, Co Dublin.