Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to speak too much about bullying, but there is an epidemic of it in the workplace and in many instances it is silently destroying people's lives. I am not certain what the answer to that is, beyond education systems and processes. It was not my intention to raise the issue of bullying in the workplace, but I will follow on from the points raised. There is a prevalence of bullying and, as a former union official, I noticed it coming to the fore. My dad, who was also a union official, said it was not discussed much when he was on his tools. It is something that is more and more a feature of workplaces. How much of the authority's work is taken up with that issue? How does it react to reports of serious incidents in workplaces?

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