Mr. Ian Talbot:

To go back to the Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF, Chambers Ireland is represented on LEEF. Membership selection rests with the Department of the Taoiseach as much as with the people here today. I do not have the terms of reference with me but LEEF has quite a limited agenda, which is around matters affecting the employer and employee relationship, excluding pay. Most of the work has been done in the past through subgroups. These included groups on pensions, housing, aviation and the auto enrolment subgroup, which was run by the then Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Senator Regina Doherty. Within the enterprise trade and employment area there is a lot of overlap with committees being run by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment as well. The views of small businesses are being well represented at LEEF, but the membership question is one for the Department of the Taoiseach.