Ms Oonagh Buckley:

We have accepted all the information given to us by the ITF. What the ITF, in effect, offered to do was to act as an inspector, and it is not authorised for that. This is not its role or function. Its role and function is as a trade union, which is entirely correct and right, and as an advocate for the rights of these people, and this is entirely correct and right. We have a different function as a regulator, and it is our own authorised officers and inspectors who must carry out the work because, ultimately, for us it is a matter of compliance and if we do not get compliance we will end up in court. We need to have a file prepared by a WRC labour inspector or authorised officer to complete it. While Ken Fleming and the ITF team were extremely generous in offering to be our eyes and ears, unfortunately, we must have our own eyes and ears present.