Neale Richmond (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for indicating she will withdraw the amendment. I want to underline that I do appreciate her intentions with this amendment. There are a couple of things here with regard to a legal retirement and the stated voluntary nature of our industrial relations system in this State and any changes to collective bargaining can be aligned with our response to the report of the high level working group on collective bargaining.

That is something that is under way. I have already met a number of times with the social partners and we are going to make really good progress on that. Perhaps that will be an area we focus on a bit more, going forward.