Mr. Conor King:

It is not a difficult thing to record working time. In fact, the Government has defined the working day and working week in submissions to Europe, benchmarking bodies and the Gleeson commission in 1990 as, typically, a 40-hour week. Even though 33 years have passed since the Gleeson commission, we still do not have a time recording system in place. It boggles the mind if we think about it. We are used to it, but if we step back for a moment we can draw a line from the failure to record working time to the failure to provide appropriate rates of pay for additional hours worked.