Mr. David Joyce:

To answer the last question first, we take our leadership from our affiliate trade unions. We recently had our conference in Belfast, where a whole range of motions on a wide range of matters relating to the workplace and broader societal issues were discussed and agreed.

The submission we made in 2021 calls for, as the Senator described, an expansion of the gender grounds. This has been interpreted in a broad fashion up to now but it would be better for it to explicitly outline what discrimination it outlaws. I have no problem in lining up our mission with this. We have a broad range of members, some of whom are transgender, and it would be remiss of us not to include them in our work.