75 per cent of Irish fishing vessels have had adverse findings made against them for illegal work practices.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar confirmed this week that 95 of the 126 vessel owners in the Irish fleet have been issued with Contravention Notices, and 392 contraventions of employment legislation have been detected by inspectors from the Workplace Relations Commission.
Michael O’Brien is a spokesperson for the International Transport Workers Federation and says the exploitation of migrant workers is widespread in the Irish fishing industry:
