Marie Sherlock (Labour) | Oireachtas source

That is great. The Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, published its annual report yesterday and we saw that of the 5,820 inspections it conducted last year, 5,700 workplaces were found to be in contravention of employment law. That is 98% of all inspections. We can make two interpretations of that. One is that lawbreaking is widespread across Irish workplaces, though I am not convinced that is entirely the truth. The other is the WRC is hugely underresourced. I am not sure whether the Minister has had a chance to look at the report, what his views are on the resourcing and what his plans are. From where I am standing and having spoken with trade unions, it certainly seems there is a massive issue with resourcing the WRC. That 98% contravention rate seems to point to a problem.