Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Resourcing and Capacity of the Workplace Relations Commission: Discussion
Mr. Liam Kelly:
The Maynooth University report is a very good report, as always. The Deputy has raised a few key issues. One is the use of interpreters. The Oireachtas joint committee previously suggested that we should also use interpreters on the quayside and we are open to doing that.
The context of inspections can be challenging. We may get short notice of a trawler having arrived at a quayside during the middle of the night and we have to mobilise our inspectors to go there. It can be very difficult to organise interpreters, particularly where a number of nationalities may be on board. That is a key issue.
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