Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 August 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants

Ms Nora Labo:

It is hard to know. There are several agencies. Each factory might work with one agency but throughout the sector there are probably five or six agencies that provide workers and source them from different places. I mostly know about workers sourced from eastern Europe but there are also agencies that bring in workers from Brazil, for instance. That involves a different procedure from European workers because those workers are often brought in on visa permits. I do not know how many agencies there are. There may be up to a dozen, but I do not think it is very relevant because they all have similar practices.

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