Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Edel McGinley:

We did this report with workers. It contains the voices of workers and their experiences and it was conducted over a period of time. We stand over the report and we talk to workers. The big issue for us in the report is that there were persistent and consistent health and safety issues. Today's discussion is not about that issue but we do have an ask for this committee. We have made recommendations in the report to set up a joint committee between this committee and the Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine to look at this report, to advance the recommendations of the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response and to have a different forum where there would be political oversight for that.

That would have to be led by this committee in the setting up of a joint committee to examine it further, which would be a very welcome outcome, even from today’s meeting.

In terms of some of the other-----

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