Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree with this point. It is a thing that used to annoy me when I was a Deputy bringing forward amendments. I wish to bring forward my own amendment to do exactly this on Report Stage and while we need to run things through the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel, there is no disagreement here. To be clear, this should be in the Bill. We did engage with the TUI and others and they identified a number of areas where trade unions and staff associations should be in the Bill. The Deputies will remember from the last day that we brought forward quite of lot of amendments where we ensured that trade unions and staff associations were listed in the Bill explicitly rather than implicitly. This was not a section where it was identified in our engagement but, nonetheless, it is an accepted oversight and I will rectify it on the basis of the Deputy’s amendments.