Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am just worried that might happen unintentionally because of the way the Bill is worded. Maybe we could go a small bit further. Perhaps my amendments go too far. That is grand. I am content to withdraw them and engage so that we can come up with some wording and assurances. We need to find that balance. It cannot always be on the well-funded corporate side. There does have to be that balance in favour of other, perhaps less corporate, organisations that are still worthy of trusted status because of the work that they do. Such work is carried out by a lot of trade unions and NGOs. Perhaps the blanket inclusion of trade unions or NGOs is too broad. Maybe there is a way to include them but tighten up the criteria slightly. I am happy to engage with the Minister of State on that. It is something I feel fairly strongly about. If we are not broad with this and if we do not have a balance of views, it is not going to work out well. It might work, but not for everybody and only for a small number, and that is not good either. This is very important. My amendments are tabled in the interest of making the Bill stronger and not to be obstructive. I would be very happy and interested in engaging with the Minister of State because I think there is huge scope within the trade union movement and NGOs - not every trade union and NGO - to have this status.