Following a decision at Cabinet on Tuesday the Government has decided to immediately establish a taskforce to examine the wide range of issues identified in Monday’s report in The Guardian regarding the treatment of foreign workers on board Irish fishing trawlers...[it] reported that undocumented workers have been employed in the Irish fishing industry on extremely low pay, less than half the minimum wage, and they endure terrible working conditions including sleep deprivation and inhuman hours. It was also reported that some may have been trafficked via Belfast on UK transit visas in what they described as a "catalogue of abuses". Ken Fleming of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITWF) claims that the use of undocumented labour in the Irish shipping industry is widespread...and efforts to raise the alarm...have been ignored.