Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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I thank Deputy Bríd Smith for swapping with me as our Private Members' business slot is just beginning in the Seanad. Specifically around a just transition forum, the actual proposal for such a forum that we heard from ICTU was that the Workplace Relations Commission would act as chair to a stakeholder forum that would allow for addressing these issues. Potentially this could act as a model because we know that we are going to have to see many transitions in many sectors, and it could be an opportunity to have a stakeholder forum framed not as dispute resolution but as a meeting of stakeholders. I would like to ask Bord na Móna specifically if it is the case, as we understand it at the moment, that the company is not willing to meet in a stakeholder forum chaired by the Workplace Relations Commission. Is that the case?