Ms Maeve McElwee:

Again, I believe it is a company law issue regarding the preferential treatment of creditors. That is a separate matter. In terms of the industrial relations framework that allows for collective agreements to be put in place, if we are to put those on a statutory footing, which I understand is what the Bill is trying to achieve, the challenge is one is making industrial relations, a piece of voluntarist legislation in a voluntarist industrial relations-----