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:

Turning to the Deputy's outreach question, we have engaged in considerable outreach with fishers in recent years. Given it is a small scale sector and pockets of people can be geographically spread around the country, it is apparent we need to think about and do more to reach them close to where they live. While social media is an important tool, we cannot beat presentations or talking to fishers face to face. It is our intention to work with trusted parties such as the ITF, Citizen Information and migrant rights groups to set up town hall meetings, if possible, where we can outline what people’s rights are on board vessels and hear any issues they have in order that we can advice how best they can address them.

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