Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

On unionisation, there was an interesting article in the Business Post on Sunday about tech workers seeking to unionise and join the Financial Services Union in the context of the job losses and so on. It would be a good idea for tech workers to get into unions to try to protect their interests. The rate of workers covered by collective bargaining is very low, at approximately one in four. There is an EU directive on adequate minimum wages but potentially the most important part of the directive is where it outlines that in countries with low collective bargaining rates, that is, where fewer than 80% of workers are covered, the government of the state needs to work with unions, employers and so on to try to bring that up to 80%. Are there plans to do so here? How will it be achieved?