Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That kind of measure has been agreed in the past voluntarily between management and unions in certain circumstances and so on. I doubt we would ever get approval to prescribe something like that in primary legislation. The more projects we can initiate in this country that have a construction dimension to them the better, in the sense that there is a great deal of local labour left unemployed following the crash. Seeking to prescribe that in primary legislation would not pass muster either here or in Europe.