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"Mr President, I want to congratulate Mrs van den Burg for an enormously well done job and the Commissioner for introducing this directive.
The kind of detailed work that is involved in this kind of directive is never adequately appreciated outside of this House. Anyone who has watched the way in which Mrs van den Burg has worked on this directive will appreciate the enormous amount of commitment and expertise that had to be brought to it.
We are trying to balance flexibility with security for workers who, in many countries, still do not have any security at all. We have been told here that national legislation already exists in Ireland to protect these workers. That is not so. We are told that it is best left to the Member States to deal with these matters. The Irish experience will demonstrate that is not so. There are close to 100 000 agency workers in Ireland. The European Foundation for Living and Working Conditions, based in Dublin, published a study in May showing that there is no guarantee of equal treatment for agency workers in Ireland and that there is virtually no legal protection for agency workers at all in Ireland. That is a study carried out by a foundation funded by the European Union.
It also points out that Ireland has failed to implement the 1991 Health and Safety Directive covering agency workers. Incidentally, Ireland has also failed to implement the Part-time Workers Directive and is now seriously out of line with the rest of Europe on these issues.
So it is not a good idea to leave these matters in the hands of Member States – and certainly not a good idea to leave it in the hands of the current Irish Government, the ruling party of which Mr Crowley is a member. I would challenge him to back up his statement in this House tonight that there is already adequate protection for Irish workers in this area. There is not adequate protection. There is none."@en1
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substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3
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