Ms Karan O'Loughlin:

No, I absolutely do not. The Chairman mentioned the Employment Equality Act and the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act earlier. Those Acts are very comprehensive and they are difficult to process. There is an absence of legislation dedicated to bullying and harassment at work and the responsibilities and avenues of redress around that. The Workplace Relations Commission is very well situated to handle complaints of that nature if there was legislation on the specific issue. It would be really useful. Negotiating the Employment Equality Act or the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act for individual workers is difficult because if the complaints are not made in a very specific way using very specific language sometimes it can be lost later on for no other reason than somebody did not know how to articulate the complaint in the beginning.