Fruit distribution company Keelings has declined to confirm whether 189 Bulgarian workers flown in last week to pick this year's harvest are housed in single rooms while they are undergoing "restricted movement" before commencing work.
On Friday the company noted that when it sought to recruit locally, it received only 40 applications from people resident in Ireland. — RTÉ News April 20, 2020 On the issue of accommodation, Keelings said it could not disclose where seasonal workers were living, as it had a duty of care with all employees, and their privacy and safety are paramount.
Last Friday, the Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan expressed unease about transporting workers from other countries - a view echoed by the Taoiseach and Health Minister Simon Harris.
So it’s not a law! Now everyone can exercise the Keeling approach GardaTraffic how confusing
I'd say they're all packed into a portakabin like sardines ,ffs🙄
Enough said silence is normally enough
The directors of BoycottKeelings need to be arrested. They are refusing to cooperate with social distancing and the lockdown.
Why are the being inspected by Health Officials?
boycottkeelings !!!
They are probably in dormitory type accommodation no way would Keelings pay for single rooms
Ask Simon...his mate👌
So can they scientically and catogorically state no viral infection will be passed via their fruit and what fund have they set up to compensate the raft of claims that me come their way.
UNITE and migrant council Have already confirmed issues when workers arrived. No testing, accommodation issues and social distancing.
The whole debacle stinks
Getting to a stage where this shower would be as well to come out and say, we dnt give a shit ,we are racking and stacking the workers and we will do what the hell we like ..fk the social distancing/isolation,doesn't apply to us....while the rest of us go mental cooped up.
Boycott.
Where are they?
Ah sure what are ya asking keelings for, ask simoncoveney he’s all in all with them.
Laughable 🤣 BoycottKeelings Keelings Fruit Ireland
boycottkeelings
Im finished going along with this charade, lockdown is over.
NOT THAT GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA MACHINE SCUMBAGS RTE WOULD EVER TELL THE PUBLIC THE TRUTH ANYWAY..🇮🇪☘🦊
Do FG give a shit? Are there links between FG and Keelings? Are there different laws or expectations of behavior for different people/businesses in Ireland? Does anything change in Ireland?
Course they do as they Live like sardines.. Conveys friend's allowed break the rules 😔
That'll be a No then.
Severe partiality going on in a hospitals here...the frontline workers are all foreigners, in couple of cases, husband is tested positive and wife is asked to come to duty....while all Irish staffs are given quarantine time. So sad to see this happening here.
boycot boycot Boycot keelings
Tax payer covers their wage costs for 2 weeks while Self Isolation Tax payers pay for accommodation Tax payers buy their produce FG FF SF don't care Irish people just sit and take it. Citizens in other country do not accept this abuse of power UNITE & SIPTU will sort it
This is where they are staying along with other workers, god knows how many to a room....
They are staying in Drogheda, god knows how many to a Bungalow
Translation.. all in caravans .. strawberries for breakfast, potatoes for lunch , strawberry flan for tea. 10 quid an hour minus 2 for digs, 1 euro for utilities, 3 euro to repay flight and arrangement fees, leaving 4 an hour. Capitalism..yay.
I don't understand why we can't send Garda/HSE Inspectors there? if there is no social distancing, no special housing provided just pack all those people on the plane and send them back!!!
Friends in high places
They had their chance to put this right but they couldn't give a damn about the health & safety of these migrant workers working for below the minimum working wage. They couldn't care less about their families or for the health of the local community. F*ck them. Boycottkeelings
If they're coming here to work give them proper accommodation. If they are coming here as asylum seekers give them proper accommodation If they live on our streets give them proper accommodation
Shudnt be a grape bought of them
Restricted movement welfare people have the right to enter Keeping property along with the police garda to make sure everyone is safe & well & are keeping there distance watch out coronavirus is about under the human rights acts never mind Irish law.
It seems keelings have some friends in fine gael?
Letsbe honest here,keelings arent doing it for the good of their workers,no matter what they say.if it makes money for them,in a cheaper way,they will fo it.dont anyone be fooled by varadkars antics rither 👁
I wonder were the Bulgarian workers already picking Keelings berries in their own country, loads of Keelings fruit is imported and then they would like you to think they were picked over the ditch, a pack of frauds
That’s a no so.
Does it matter, apart from it not being nice if they're all squashed in? If they're all isolating for 14 days, it's no different than large families living together. Or am I missing something?
Boycottkeelings why? 6 strawberries in a punnit and each punnit 6e ! scandalous
Can RTÉ ask the Bulgarians themselves? Keelings refusal to comment doesn't mean we can't find out or report on it.
At this stage Keelings have done themselves no favours. I was prepared to give them the benefit of doubt. Now I won’t touch any of the products going forward. We can’t reward this type of behaviour COVID19
Where are all these singles rooms coming from how much does Keelings deduct from their low wages to house them Irish Companies using foreign workers to insure a profitable underline is very wrong in 2020 keelingsfruits
marywallace07 Ask concannon?
Well if it’s anything like the accommodation they provide in the Co Louth setting then there is no distancing, it’s several sets of bunk beds in one room!!!
Declines to confirm? They've just brought 189 outside people into the country in the middle of a pandemic. Who approved this? FineGael? simoncoveney?
So they’ve answered the question. They’re not adhering to social distancing.
Boycott them
It's a joke, only it's not funny. Hopefully the people of Ireland will make Keelings pay for their stupidity. Hit them where it hurts, in the pocket. Anyone who buys their produce is as bad as they are.
So thats a hard NO then
Of course they did . What I don't understand is why they didn't make a national appeal for workers considering the times we are in .
Leave them alone RTE, they're picking our fruit!
It's a conspiraspberry. (Ok, I'm going to stop using that one now)
Why decline to comment? Did they not say originally that they were going into hse guidelines of 14 day quarintine? Surely they werent telling lies?
why do you think we had a sharp rise in STD's in ireland 🍓🍓🍓
I've done the math those strawberries are €117 each.
Keelings have scored a spectacular own goal. Their fruit is shite, usually most in little tray are soft or mush.
Yes social distancing and staying healthy in fresh fruit
So if one of the 189 have Covid they all can't work.....can't travel home....will Keelings pay the hospital bill
An essential business being bullied by the state media who keelingsfruits pay for. And the army of welfare recipients they are propping up.
I think it's fair to deduce that by not answering the question they've in fact answered the question 🤷♂️
I bet they'd do it like the German farmers. House them in metal sheds while seizing 30% of their income as 'rent'. Then, all of the sudden few deaths happen. We will hear about it if the media does their job...
Shinners incoming 3..2..1
Coveneys everywhere are scrambling 😂