Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Health and Safety Authority: Chairperson-Designate

4:00 pm

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I add my voice to that. I see the vision of the authority as focusing on healthy, safe and productive lives. Mr Coughlan said he would play his part to achieve that vision so as to ensure that workers returned home safely to their families every day. This is something we can all aspire to because 45 work-related deaths in 2016 means that 45 families were destroyed. In the next few years we are, hopefully, going to see a glut of young apprentices in the construction industry and in farming and health and safety are very important. We have come through a period of rogue builders and it is very important for any parent who sends a child out to do an apprenticeship that the health and safety checks are in place.

On behalf of the committee, I thank Mr. Coughlan for coming here to engage with us today. I wish him success in this role and we look forward to meeting with him again in the future. The clerk to the committee will write to the Minister informing her that we have completed our engagement with Mr. Coughlan and a transcript of this meeting will be provided.

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