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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: It is not what I am saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: We can ask the Defence Forces representatives that later.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Absolutely, but the more important point is that Mr. O'Donnell has a major problem in his industry and I do not hear him acknowledging that even though the facts are available. I will give him a second fact, if I may. Seventy of the 150 boats the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, inspected had no documentation whatsoever. Will any of the witnesses explain that to me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Documentation in regard to their workforce.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: No. Their workers. They had no documentation whatsoever according to the WRC report, and we will hear from the WRC later today. Some of the witnesses seem to be in denial. Will they explain to me how that could be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am glad Mr. Murphy raised the issue of logbooks - fair play to him for raising it - because I see that last year, 2016, 116 logbooks were returned to the Marine Survey Office, MSO, in the first six months and just 60 in the second six months. Again, Mr. Murphy represents these fishers. Will he explain to me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I am dealing with facts. We need to take the emotion out of this and deal with facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I have two questions, and I will finish at that point. Why do the witnesses not acknowledge the problem to which the facts clearly point regarding a large number of non-EEA workers? The follow-on question is that for the sake of their industry and given that they are now facing 19 claims of trafficking, some of which information has already gone to the Garda and the rest is on its way, why...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Mr. Murphy is not listening. I never said that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: It is 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Mr. Conway needs to rethink that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: By your side.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: I said that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: And the Defence Forces.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2017)
Paul Gavan: Perhaps the witness could look at this letter. This is a letter from the European Union sectoral social dialogue committee, signed by both the employer's organisation of fishers and the worker's organisation, and it agrees that migrant fishers are subject to, I quote, "Abuse of vulnerability, deception, restriction of movement, isolation, intimidation and threats, retention of identity...