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

I have more faith in Enterprise Ireland because I believe it absolutely could exclude data centres were it the policy. However, as we see, the red carpet is the policy for them instead.

Most employers in the State are decent in that they pay their workers and meet the minimum requirements under the law, but some are not. Consider the circumstances where there is a failure to adhere to Labour Court recommendations etc. The delegates can understand that it seems counterintuitive to many that supports are provided by the State, which runs the Labour Court on the one hand, while on the other, recommendations of the Labour Court and so on are ignored. Is it possible to link the two or is there no value to that? I have an open mind on it because, as I said, my issue is that you start to buy workers' rights from these lads and eventually the price gets too high. I do not believe that is how it should be done. Workers should be facilitated with the right to collectively bargain and organise. Notwithstanding that, were an instruction to be issued that schemes had to be devised to ensure not only full compliance with requirements on paying the minimum wage and what must be done at a minimum in terms of health and safety but also with recommendations from the third-party industrial relations machinery, could it be acted upon? Is that possible or would it render the scheme so top-heavy with bureaucracy as to be unworkable?