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:

These agencies are based in Ireland. Even when the agency to which I referred was working through its Polish subsidiary, the workers were hired and were always in close contact with the agency's Irish staff, though all the financial and contract business was done through the Polish subsidiary to evade tax in Ireland. From the beginning, people were in contact with the Irish staff of this agency, which is based in Waterford and was started in Ireland. The people who are described as Polish self-employed contractors in their contracts have no ties to Poland, are not even Polish and had never set foot in Poland. They are insured in Poland but they are actually Romanian.

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