Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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I thank the witnesses for those very interesting presentations and comments. I found them very useful. I will start with Mr. Clarke on a number of things he mentioned that I found quite interesting. He mentioned that the definition of "worker" is too narrow. I, too, am concerned about that because it seems to be silent on people working for voluntary organisations, external contractors, directors and so on. I assume from what Mr. Clarke said - and this is my view but I am interested to hear his - that he would be in favour of expanding that definition to include these types of workers. I am interested to hear his views on journalists as well. He might be aware, with recent things happening-----