Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 February 2022
Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised)
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I am looking for the numbers for the WRC. I think I am correct that we are increasing the number of inspectors by ten this year. We plan to expand that service, and expand the WRC, over the next couple of years. With more people at work then there is going to be more work for the commission. We also need to increase the number of labour inspections happening in general in certain parts of the economy. I am going to try and get those numbers now, if I can, but I think that it is ten additional WRC inspectors or staff for this year.