Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 10 July 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Congregated Settings: Meat Plants
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
It seems bizarre that we are relying on census information to try to get a sense of what proportion of the workforce in meat plants comes from migrant communities. Meat Industry Ireland refers to its migrant workforce as people from outside the EU. I am not sure whether any of them working here from Poland consider themselves to be domestic workers.
Perhaps Ms McKeown might have information on the following. Would it be fair to say, from her experience, that over 50% of general operators in meat plants are from migrant backgrounds?
No comments