April 13, 2021 4:12 pm
Meat Industry Ireland (MII) said that “every effort” has been made to recruit meat processing plant workers domestically in the last number of years.
Today (Tuesday, April 13) the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment continued its pre-legislative scrutiny of the general scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019.
Representatives from MII and Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) attended, and Philip Carroll of MII told the committee that employment in the meat sector is “based on full-time direct employment and comprises a mixture of Irish and EU employees who represent some 80% of the total workforce”.
“Irish staff continue to represent the single largest nationality. The majority, mainly European nationals, have worked in Ireland in the years since 2005, after EU enlargement, when a significant number of workers came from central and eastern Europe,” he said.
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April 12, 2021 2:25 pm
The Oireachtas spotlight will shine on the issue of work permits – with both meat industry and migrant representatives to appear before the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment tomorrow (Tuesday, April 13).
The Oireachtas joint committee will resume Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019 when it meets tomorrow morning.
The meeting at 9.30am in Committee Room three of Leinster House will discuss the heads of the bill with:
Representatives from Meat Industry Ireland (MII); and
Representatives from The Migrant Rights Centre Ireland.
Committee chairman, deputy Maurice Quinlivan, said: “This bill proposes to update the employment permits system to increase its flexibility and effectiveness to respond to changes in labour supply and demand, or employment practices.