Kathleen O'Meara (Labour)

I second the motion.

I wish to pick up where Senator Ryan finished by reiterating that the new situation we face of the rapid growth in the number of foreign workers here, which is very much to be welcomed, requires a new set of responses and it is a matter of urgency that those responses are put in place. The situation faced by the Gama workers and other instances we could cite of the exploitation of foreign workers have shocked people to their core. It is not that long ago since many thousands of Irish people travelled abroad as migrant workers. It was interesting to note that a delegation from the Fine Gael Party left for the US recently.