Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 pm
Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
We have been speaking about how people express their concerns if they cannot speak the language, and the Chairman expressed it well. I am very surprised by this. I have a lot of respect for the WRC as a former trade union official. I would have thought the first thing it would realise when undertaking a project such as this is it would need to have some level of language assistance. I know from personal experience, because I have met some of these fishers, that they cannot speak English. If I am an Egyptian fisher, what assistance do I get from the WRC? How can I contact it if I cannot speak the language? Has the WRC translated any information leaflets into any of these languages? This is basic stuff. Are the witnesses stating the WRC has not done this?
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