Professor Siobhán Mullally:

It is recognised there is a very serious risk of exploitation arising from pushing people into precarious forms of employment like this. Longer term, we have to look at what will happen in the workplace and what will happen with regard to any kind of self-employment. There are risks of labour exploitation and abuse and people being targeted by criminal networks for trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation. Asylum seekers are targeted across Europe for that. If we are setting up a scheme that further entrenches those kinds of risks, it is absolutely essential there is effective access to the labour market and that people are not pushed into self-employment because there is not any other kind of effective access.