Mr. Fergal O'Brien:

On the question of social dialogue and whether there is a model elsewhere that we should look at, I think we had a pretty good model here with the original advancement of social partnership. I do see it, predominantly in our conversations, with the focus on the labour market. There is lots of other engagement in consultation that tends to happen, but there is a significant risk that if it becomes too broad, it will lose purpose. I think the trade unions would share our view that for a labour market engagement and the social issues that flow from those labour market issues, the model that we started in 1987 was a pretty good one. It lost its way, but it was a pretty good model. We are quite an outlier in a European context. Most of the IBECs of Europe that we work with are almost all engaged in some type of social dialogue in quite a substantive way. We see that as being beneficial.

We spoke a lot about sustainability and the just transition elements to that. Mr. Hazzard touched on the digital transformation in his second question. Just transformation is what we are talking about in terms of the disruption that is now going to come into the world of work with AI and advanced digitisation. That is going to need a sophisticated dialogue model to hold it together. That is something that is not going to respect the lines of jurisdictions.