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"Mr President, I wish to speak on the immoral behaviour of the company Irish Ferries. I know my colleague, Mr De Rossa, will be speaking on this issue as well.
This week that company sacked 550 Irish and Welsh seafarers and took on Latvians at a much cheaper rate – less than half the minimum wage. That is because Irish Ferries has a new flag of convenience – the Cyprus flag – which means that it can skirt around the minimum wage laws of Ireland. This is bad for Irish workers and it is also bad for Latvian workers, because they are being exploited. I hope that this is not the shape of things to come under the Services Directive. The approach adopted by Irish Ferries has been positively Victorian. It smuggled security men on board the ships to force the staff to accept this switchover. Obviously there are serious safety issues here. We clearly need to revisit the 1998 Manning Directive.
I should like to ask you, Mr President, to ensure that the Council puts this on the agenda for Monday’s Transport Council meeting. This is something that my colleague, Mr De Rossa, is also very keen to see."@en1
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