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- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I would have thought they were not all from the meat industry. What other sectors were people in?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Ms McGinley. If I may, I will ask a couple of questions. Does Deputy O'Donoghue want to come back in? I was going to bring the Deputy in at the end but if he wants to come in now, he may go ahead.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I am coming back to this report by the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions that SIPTU contributed to. It states: Violations of workers' rights are more frequent in the red meat industry – as it is poorly organised. The situation is slightly better in the pork and poultry industry where the level of unionization is higher. SIPTU will try to increase...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: We have some time remaining. Returning to the issue of work permits, is it the case that it is not possible to get a work permit from within the country and that it is necessary to apply from outside Ireland? How does that work?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Let us take a person working for one meat factory who perhaps does not like his or her job or the employer does not like the him or her. If a worker who is a third-country national here on a work permit is let go or leaves a job, how is it then possible for him or her to go on to work for another company, in the same area or another area?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Is that provided for in law?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: It can be the employee.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: My apologies for interrupting Ms McGinley. I was curious about the difficulties in moving from one employment situation to another if a person is here on the basis of a work permit.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: We are almost out of time. If a person is here as an undocumented migrant, or without any lawful basis to be here, is it possible for him or her to apply for a work permit to regularise his or her situation?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: How long is it?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: We have a minute and a half and then we will conclude.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: Thank you very much. We will suspend until 2.30 p.m.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I welcome Mr. Philip Carroll, chairman, Mr. Cormac Healy, senior director, and Mr. Joe Ryan, director, Meat Industry Ireland, who are seated in committee room 1. I thank them for coming here on a Friday afternoon. I wish to advise the witnesses that by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the...
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Carroll.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I ask Mr. Carroll to conclude his opening remarks.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I thank Mr. Carroll. I am going to open to the floor.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: No. I have asked Mr. Carroll to limit himself to five minutes, as I have asked every other speaker who has been before the committee. He has now taken eight. I am going to open the floor to members to allow for questions and answers. I thank Mr. Carroll very much. His opening statement has been circulated in advance.
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: As a follow-up, we have received a submission from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on this matter. It states "The Department’s responsibility at slaughterhouses and processing plants is primarily to ensure that such establishments operate in compliance with food hygiene legislation and focus on ... ante and post-mortem inspection service ... sampling for BSE ..."....
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: I have one quick follow-up question. Do the rights workers have in the event they are sick typically include sick pay as part of their contracts?
- Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (Resumed) (10 Jul 2020)
Michael McNamara: No. My question was, do they have sick pay?