Ms Edel McGinley:

It is all well and good to provide health and safety measures in the language people understand but there has to be training in it. There has to be consistent training, monitoring and communication with staff. Part of the problem has been a lack of communication between management and workers. That has been consistent in the past. As the committee heard, over 60% do not even know who the health and safety officer is in their place of work. There is a real problem in terms of communication, connection and consultation with workers to protect them and keep them safe. It is important that information is in people's languages and I do not have a figure for how often this is available, but that needs to be made real for people in the workplace. What does that look like? We do not have figures on that and it is important to understand how much training has been carried out and with whom? What people were involved in it?

A big piece of work has to be done. It needs investment. We are really talking about investment in workers here and this is what has been lacking previously and throughout the whole time.