460 workers lost their jobs when the well-known Dublin department store shut down last July.
The Department of Social Protection was forced to pay 2 million Euros of taxpayers' money to staff who were left unemployed.
But according to today's Sunday Business Post, the Government wants to use the Companies Act to recoup the money from the owners.
The Department of Jobs appointed a officer to investigate the sale of Clerys which saw a sit-in by workers who say they were given short notice about the store's closure.
