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 Deputy is right. We have done 490 inspections of 170 vessels. Not all vessels have been inspected twice. We return to vessels where contraventions had occurred previously and where there is a risk associated with them. That is critical in using our resources effectively and in driving compliance within the scheme. We return to those vessels where issues arose in the past.

In the context of the scheme, there is a provision where breaches occur that the vessel owner is not entitled to use the atypical scheme. That is a matter for the Department of Justice in assigning permits.

We do not report those as breaches when we bring them to prosecution. It is certainly something that we should examine in any review of the scheme.

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