Ulick Burke (Fine Gael)

I ask the Leader to contact the responsible Minister with a view to rectifying this situation with the companies involved.

I also ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to ask inspectors of employment to be more proactive in their work relating to the underpayment of foreign workers, particularly in the security and construction industries.

I met a young Polish man in Galway city who was working as a security guard from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. His only facilities for doing his work were a hut on a building site, without services, and one hard chair. He was paid the princely sum of €4 per hour.

We have a labour inspectorate that is allowing this type of situation, which appears to be rampant, to continue. I ask the Leader to contact the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to request that he instruct the inspectors to be far more visible on the ground so situations such as the one I have outlined are eliminated from our labour market.