Ms Dara Breathnach:

I am not sure. We are pretty okay in these terms. We certainly look for collective redundancy notifications at a lower level than many other EU countries so we have perhaps a little more of a picture of what is going on. Our protections, because they are directive-derived, are broadly comparable with most jurisdictions. Our redundancy payments, for example, are a little more generous than they are in rather a lot of EU jurisdictions. I would put us certainly in the front half of the pack.