Ms Siobhan Curran:

When the Tánaiste launched the national plan on business and human rights originally, he said they would like an approach where businesses would be brought along, so businesses would implement human rights due diligence but there would not be legislation on this. It is more of a partnership approach, I suppose. That is a view many people and states have. Our view is that it is not working and it is simply not enough. That is okay for the businesses that are violating human rights and just running roughshod over this lack of regulation, and what we are seeing across Europe is businesses calling for more regulation - those who are not profiting from human rights violations, which they call levelling the playing field. This is something that more and more businesses are in support of as well.