More must be done to ally treatment of crew on Irish trawlers

Early last year, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Migrants Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) met the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation to convey concerns about how some non-European Union crew members might be treated on Irish trawlers.

Early last year, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and the Migrants Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) met the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation to convey concerns about how some non-European Union crew members might be treated on Irish trawlers.

The committee was so concerned by what it heard about crews employed under the Atypical Worker Permission Scheme that, last September, it met representatives of the fishing sector and government departments.