Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----to deal with all of these matters, including the new responsibilities it will be given under the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018, which will bring An Garda Síochána under the remit of the WRC. We ensured in the budget that additional resources would be provided for the WRC. I believe they were in region of €1 million. That will suffice. SEOs have worked well and since the enactment of the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015, there has been industrial peace in this country. This is important in the context of increased activity in the construction sector. The demand for housing and commercial building is high and growing and the provisions of the aforementioned Act are important in that context. My role is to ensure that the process, as laid out in the Act, is followed by the Labour Court and I am fully satisfied that this has happened.