Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is my final supplementary on this issue. To be clear, in terms of the permits the Department has facilitated for the meat processing sector, the wage level is €22,000 for those positions. However, those in the meat processing industry are telling the Department that they cannot fill those positions in the local labour market, and they have given demonstrable evidence to that effect.