Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government pledges to increase capital investment in infrastructure. Obviously, this is very good news for the construction industry but it is not so much good news for workers on low pay who are trapped in bogus subcontracts. Both in March and July of this year I asked during Questions on Promised Legislation for the then Taoiseach to give us an update on the report that was being led by the Department of Finance and which formally involved his own Department. Three months on, we have no update. Today, I received an anonymised letter from a construction worker in my constituency who is working on a site in Clondalkin and is being paid below the statutory wage. Because he has been forced into a bogus subcontract, he is not able to benefit from proper PRSI contributions. My question is simple. When will that report be published and, crucially, when will the Government introduce the necessary legislation to protect workers and taxpayers and abolish bogus subcontracting in the construction industry?

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