Ms Nora Labo:

That is why systematic inspections by Revenue would be necessary. These could compare who is on the payroll of a factory to the number of workers that are actually declared to Revenue. A union cannot have exhaustive information on that because we only know the people who are unionised with us. For instance, all these people who are falsely declared in Poland are completely invisible in Ireland. They do not appear as being insured and having PPS numbers. We uncovered hundreds of cases in several plants that are unionised with us but hundreds, even thousands, more such people might still be working in these conditions in other plants. That can only be found out through inspections by, say, the scope section in the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, which is supposed to assess if people are employees or self-employed, Revenue and so on. A union can have no numbers beyond what its actual members experience.