Mr. Tom Hayes:

I am not a solicitor or a barrister, but the advice Kevin Duffy, who is a barrister, has given us is that we would probably need very short primary legislation that could be drafted and enacted quite quickly. In other words, we would strip out of the existing legislation all references to disputes and all sorts of private arbitrators and stuff like that and put in a simple sentence that says any disputes arising over any matter involving European works councils, or special negotiating bodies which help set up European works councils, will go to the WRC and then to the Labour Court. That could be drafted and enacted quite quickly, especially as there is no social partner dispute over this, but we think primary legislation is required.