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Mr President, I would need two hours to detail the problems that migrant workers face coming into and working in Ireland. We have the reputation of being one of the most generous countries in terms of allowing access from the ten new Member States. That is true. There are many good employers in Ireland who treat their workers well. Unfortunately there are employers in Ireland who treat workers from the ten new countries appallingly. We have cases of workers being expected to work for 12 hours per day, 7 days a week for EUR 1 per hour. We have situations where the Polish Embassy is on record as saying that it has queues of people coming to it in tears, having been fired on the spot by employers who know that there is a queue of Polish workers waiting to take their jobs.
The specific case I want to raise tonight relates to an actual case not in a Member State but in a candidate country: a Turkish company employing Turkish workers in Ireland that is engaged in the systematic defrauding of its employees. It has been transferring funds belonging to these workers to a Dutch bank, the account of which it controls. It is suspected that this company owns that bank.
I want the Commissioner to investigate that case. I want the Commission to contact the Irish authorities to find out why it has taken a Member of Parliament to reveal the facts, despite the fact that we have a department responsible for investigating breaches of labour law. We have 21 inspectors covering the whole state, a deplorably small number. We need at least 100.
I would also like the Commission to investigate whether Gama – the company to which I refer – is involved in money laundering and illegally shifting money that belongs to workers out of Ireland to a bank in the Netherlands which, it is claimed, it also owns.
I want an investigation into this. It is not good enough for us to pat ourselves on the back and say that we are doing great things, creating competition, ensuring that people get work, when those same people are being exploited deplorably. It is not good enough. The Commission must accept its responsibility to ensure compliance with European legislation."@en1
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