Dr. Deirdre Curran:

Following on from what Mr. Berney was saying there about the State forum, there are 16 members on that group and one seat for trade unions. One sixteenth of that committee goes to an indirect voice for workers. We have to find a way to allow workers to have a voice. Bearing in mind that the vast majority of workers are not members of trade unions, we have to find a way. Workers are collectivising themselves in the absence of having a voice. There is something called the chefs' network, which is an informal collective of chefs to address the absence of a voice and there is RAIZUP, which is a collection of hospitality workers globally who are screaming for a voice, so we have to find a way.

The other hospitality task force has no employee representative on it. The two main ones then were that of the State and that of Fáilte Ireland, which latter one did not have a single employee voice, if it is the same task force and I am thinking of.