Mr. Raghnall Ó Floinn:

The museum council has been up and running since January this year. That is a forum for dealing with industrial relations issues and collective dispute resolution. The staff forum has now been agreed and it will hold its first meeting in May. Part of that delay arose because there was a detailed process of consultation with staff associations on the composition and the terms of reference on these two forums because nothing existed before this and I was determined that if we were going to do this, we would do it right. We now have mechanisms in place for staff to be nominated to those forums by their staff associations. That is all in place. In the meantime we were doing dispute resolution in terms of the individual dispute resolution by the same process, the grievance procedures were completely reviewed and re-written and the dignity in work policy was similarly done. They are the actions that arose out of the reports.