Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is but it is also important that the human rights of individuals are respected. We have to give workers, whether they are from Cork, New York or Papua New Guinea, certain human rights and we need to ensure that the nature of the relationship between the worker and the employer is in some way level. If one forces a worker to be tied to a specific employer, it puts that employer in a position of great power, which can be exploited. We are not just simply filling an economic need in this legislation. We are also looking to afford people common decency.