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

That is my assessment and, with respect, this is my time and I have other questions I want to get to, if I may.

Mr. Reidy refers in his submission to a set of legislative changes, what I would loosely call and what Sinn Féin calls the right to organise. That is how we describe it. That is our campaign. That is what we say. It gives workers protection in legislation. As regards the scale of the work to be done, Mr. Reidy gives us the overall numbers as regards union density. Could he give us the breakdown between public and private in terms of density? If the legislative changes he talks about - I will give Ms McElwee a chance to comment on those as well - are brought in as required, does he think the capacity exists within the trade union movement? Can it be increased to get that density and that right to organise? It is not just about having the union card in your pocket; it is about having access to your union official and your union official having access to your workplace. As Mr. Reidy says, unions need access to workers and workers need access to unions. That fits with our philosophy as regards the right to organise. As regards increasing that density, how long is that-----