Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment

Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 am

Ms Jean McCabe:

Even in the WRC cases coming out at the moment, the law is completely on the side of the employee, and fair enough. They can steal and we are the ones getting fined because we did not follow procedure because the employee was robbing from our business. I talked about the pendulum swinging too far to the left. It has swung so far to the left and I am afraid to see where it will end up. Again, we need a common sense approach. The regulation is actually there to serve the people who disobey the most and the ones who are trying to be good citizens are the ones who are bring punished.

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