Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The witnesses say that these workers are the same and have the same entitlements but they clearly do not. They are given a work permit which has information in English on the back, directing them to a website with multilingual information. They are not the same and to pretend they are is doing them a grave disservice because it pretends that they do not need the additional supports which they absolutely do. Of course they have a right to join a trade union, and I would encourage every single person to do exactly that, because in the absence of a Government willing to legislate, it is a worker's best protection. However, it is unfair and disingenuous to claim that they are the same as other workers; they are clearly not.