Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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I have a view that for many of these workers, their health, safety and welfare at work are not protected. I do not believe that encouragement will work. There needs to be a gathering of information, but to be honest, a massive volume of information does not need to be gathered; we already see horrific content on social media. These people are the gateway; the stuff they see is stuff nobody should ever see. It is horrendous. It will not require a massive amount of investigation to know that post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, comes directly from that because no person should have to see the stuff they do. The HSA needs to be there to support those workers. The Communication Workers' Union, CWU, does a lot of organising work in that area but there is a very high turnover of staff, given the nature of the work. They are there long enough to get the damage but not long enough with the company to be able to repair it. I look forward to seeing the authority expand its remit to-----