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

I suppose the job for us is to marry up the carrot and the stick, if one likes. We can operate from the assumption that most companies want to have a reputation for being decent and treating their workers well. Nobody wants to wear clothes that have been made by children in sweat shops. However, that will not be enough in terms of persuading people. There will have to be some form of very serious remedy. In order for that to happen, we need to look at how we can give access to that remedy to those people who are the furthest away in terms of education, resources and access to influence and power, and how we can balance that up. We can put that on the Tánaiste's agenda.