Fisheries employers to pay for repatriation of migrant workers under new proposals

Employers in the fishing industry will have to pay the costs of repatriating migrant workers to their home countries once their permits expire, under proposals recommended by a taskforce.

Junior jobs minister Ged Nash

Agriculture and Marine Minister Simon Coveney has also been advised that a new permit system to protect vulnerable migrant workers in the fishing industry must be inspected and solicitor-approved.

The taskforce report was brought to Cabinet this week and comes on the back of recent newspaper reports that illegal, non-European migrant workers were being used here as cheap labour.