Mr. John Murphy:

The workplace reform legislation is very substantial. Drafting is at an advanced stage. We have not been sitting back waiting for the legislation. We have implemented, where we can, on an administrative basis, several reforms in the way the industrial relations institutions work, for example, simplifying forms, single website, point of contact, etc. As we did with the integration of Forfás, we have identified a series of actions to be carried out in order that they can be done side by side with the legislation, as opposed to waiting for it to come first. There has been consultation with the social partners on collective bargaining and I expect the Minister will be in a position to bring proposals to Government on that shortly.