Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Engagement with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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It is important to put context around some of those comments. Inspections are risk-based. Inspections take place when there is a reasonable concern something is not as it should be. That is a big part of explaining why, in the vast majority of cases where there are inspections a problem emerges, as the WRC is inspecting to find the problem. It is not fair to categorise this as 98% of Irish workplaces having a problem.