Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is why my father founded an alternative union. He was a founding member of the National Busmen's Union. The Deputy will understand they wanted more and they did not think they were getting enough in the existing trade union. Someone else told me they were active people who wanted to keep active but that is a different question.

The point I am trying to make, all things in a more serious vein, is that this will facilitate the attendance of military representative associations at future national pay talks. It is very positive step forward. Deleting the entire subsection (3) might go too far in the other direction.