A large fruit growing company has been criticised for bringing fruitpickers from Bulgaria to Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin North West Paul McAuliffe said he thinks Keelings should not have brought fruitpickers from Bulgaria to Ireland to pick strawberries, describing it as "unnecessary" and that other options should have been looked at first.
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Sean O'Rourke, he raised his concern after it emerged a Ryanair flight arrived in Dublin from Sofia this week with almost 200 fruitpickers on board.
He said he has an issue with how this was done "in the midst of a global pandemic" and said it was "poor judgement" not to look at alternative methods. "A lot of people have been contacting me