Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I hear what the Minister is saying but the amendment he is putting forward puts the wrong emphasis on this. While it allows the report to be furnished to a third party, if authorised to do so by the bank in writing, on the principle of trade union representation, which is an employment hearing in reality, the individual should by right be able to discuss the report, which is the subject to his or her suspension or termination, with his or her trade union representative by right. It would be just in the exceptional case that sections of the report could not be shared. This puts the onus on the individual who is about to be suspended by the Central Bank from his or her position to get the Central Bank to give the individual approval to discuss this with his or her trade union representative. I think that is wrong. From a workers' rights point of view and given the right to representation, the focus there is wrong. I agree with the Minister's point that they may be commercially sensitive but that should be after the fact. There should be provision that the worker has the right to do it but that the Central Bank has the right to redact or restrict.