Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Impact of Brexit on Ireland's Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute
Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source
I turn to labour standards. We have a minimum wage and there is something of a movement to the introduction of a living wage, for which we have structures. Is Dr. Lawless concerned that that could be put under great pressure by the type of Brexit deal that has been discussed? Some of the more recent discussions have been associated with a race to the bottom in respect of labour standards and matters such as money laundering. Many free ports nowadays are associated with highly efficient money laundering from the drugs trade or oligarchs from various jurisdictions parking their money at such locations.
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