Mr. John O'Connell:

I think it has to. The mood music has changed. The President and the President of the United States are publicly saying that the recognition of workers, and trade union and collective bargaining, are key tenets of a civil society. There is not an option of adopting a minimalist approach. We have to adopt an approach that actually goes for the 80% target for collective bargaining. We would have a fairer society as an output of that. Given the challenges our society is facing with societal issues, which we see on a daily basis, workers are at the stage where they believe they are entitled to fair representation. We have had that from workers across the tech sector recently where there have been redundancies and where they have turned to us regarding their representation. It is a key issue and one that needs to be grasped by the Oireachtas.