Refugee workers ‘forced to live on bread and brown sauce’

REFUGEES are being paid as little as €1 to pick stones for farmers and some are being fed on bread and brown sauce, a priest said yesterday.

Fr Willie Purcell wrote to the Department of Justice three times about the matter but hasn’t received one response. The Kilkenny priest added that other unscrupulous employers are also taking advantage of the fear among the non-national community for their own benefit.

The situation in the South East is by no means confined to that one region, he added, and complaints of similar abuses across the country are flooding in.