Ms Maeve McElwee:

It is a large change in culture and a large change in culture in an environment where both the traditions of direct engagement and collective bargaining have sat side by side in our industrial relations framework for many years and have been very successful.

Through the high-level working group, we have made proposals on good faith engagement and putting employers to the test by telling them to open the doors, have conversations with the trade unions, give the unions the opportunity to build that relationship with them, see whether both sides can take those opportunities, and move that forward-----