175. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that serious concerns in relation to the WRC labour inspectorate's interactions with migrant workers - and, in particular, undocumented migrant workers - were raised in "protected disclosures" by a WRC labour inspector to the WRC and the Department in 2015, to Minister Frances Fitzgerald in 2017 and to Minister Simon Coveney in March 2023, and given also that similar concerns have been raised by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, by the GRETA Report on the Implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings by Ireland, by successive US State Department Reports on Trafficking in Persons and by a UN Special Rapporteurs’ Report on trafficking in human beings in the Irish fishing industry, if he can detail how the concerns raised in these successive “protected disclosures” were addressed and, in particular, how Minister Frances Fitzgerald dealt with the July 2017 “protected disclosure” to her, detailing how evidence provided in the 2015 disclosures to the Department had not been investigated and, similarly, how the current Minister and his Department dealt with the March 2023 “protected disclosure” to him detailing how the previous “protected disclosure” to Minister Fitzgerald had not been investigated. [50021/23]

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175. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that serious concerns in relation to the WRC labour inspectorate's interactions with migrant workers - and, in particular, undocumented migrant workers - were raised in "protected disclosures" by a WRC labour inspector to the WRC and the Department in 2015, to Minister Frances Fitzgerald in 2017 and to Minister Simon Coveney in March 2023, and given also that similar concerns have been raised by the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, by the GRETA Report on the Implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings by Ireland, by successive US State Department Reports on Trafficking in Persons and by a UN Special Rapporteurs’ Report on trafficking in human beings in the Irish fishing industry, if he can detail how the concerns raised in these successive “protected disclosures” were addressed and, in particular, how Minister Frances Fitzgerald dealt with the July 2017 “protected disclosure” to her, detailing how evidence provided in the 2015 disclosures to the Department had not been investigated and, similarly, how the current Minister and his Department dealt with the March 2023 “protected disclosure” to him detailing how the previous “protected disclosure” to Minister Fitzgerald had not been investigated. [50021/23]

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