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:

I accept the point about the number of cases we have taken. Section 2B of the Employment Permits Act provides that it is a matter for the WRC, through the Minister or the individual in question, to take a case. Regarding the bar that Mr. O'Brien mentioned, I do not want to talk about the particular case to which he referred. It was discussed with Mr. O'Brien at the meeting that was mentioned. There are issues with that particular case in that we felt it did not have a reasonable prospect of success. However, I would not take or extrapolate from this that we have a high bar. Those were the circumstances of that particular case.