Earlier Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said the Government would examine how it could get Irish workers to fill seasonal jobs as fruit pickers and agricultural workers.
Speaking in Dublin, where he was visiting the headquarters of the Civil Defence, Mr Varadkar agreed that agriculture workers were deemed to be essential workers, but said: “When we deemed agriculture workers to be essential workers, I hadn’t envisaged hundreds of agricultural workers coming in from outside the country.”
He said the Government would work with the sector “to see if we can find an adequate number of Irish people or people resident in Ireland at the very least who will take up those positions”.
Keelings said it had advertised the jobs to Irish workers, but had received few responses. Although the Government has designated agricultural workers to be “essential”, chief medical officer Tony Holohan warned that bringing hundreds of workers into the country was “not consistent” with public health advice.“We need essential workers to be able to come in and out . . . but we also make sure it’s done in such a way as minimises the risk of the transmission of the virus.
This should have happened, as a policy decision, on 12 or 17 March when restrictions began. This has happened in 🇳🇴 and other European countries
It seems like FineGael are 'discussing' everything to do with COVID19 , like childcare for essential workers, etc., but coming to no conclusions on anything. I think they're hoping it'll pass before they have to make decisions.
Go way sick of looking at this 2 faced thing Common sense wake up people, being complacent will end us all ,simply put were in this for survival PEOPLE ,not the ravings of a few who think it's funny cop on u fools......
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