Feargal Quinn (Independent)
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I welcome the Minister and his team. On the question of workers' rights and trying to harmonise them across Europe, is there a danger that it will make Europe less competitive? It is very worthy and important to have workers' rights. However, we are in a world competition and every time we insist that a country must do something it has not done until now to harmonise the workers' rights with another European country, we make Europe a little less efficient and less competitive than it would have been otherwise. To what extent do we contribute to that or take action to avoid it?