Mr. Macdara Doyle:

They are engaging, as we understand it, in the joint industrial council internal process but the head representative of the Bord na Móna group of unions, Willie Noone, said here last week that that mechanism is not sufficient to meet the challenge required. The unions have repeatedly called for a forum, facilitated by the WRC, to be initiated and to be up and running. That is the proper place to deal with those issues.