Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

The settlement agreement was reached on 30 April 2019. The reply to the parliamentary question was given in January of this year. Do the Minister of State and the Government not feel bad that this failure to act has left extremely vulnerable workers ripe for extreme exploitation? They are being left with no remedy in respect of going to the WRC to deal with being asked to work an illegal number of hours. The Government continues to fail to transpose the working time at sea directive by not giving workers access to a remedy here. People like Jose Pame Salandron are being asked to work 80 or 90 hours a week.

Unfortunately, he is not alone. I urge the Government to stop taking its time with this matter. It is urgent. The Government should act immediately.

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