Mr. Ronan Lupton:

Stepping back for a moment to the constitutional rights part of our society, employees have a constitutional right to associate and dissociate. Springboarding from that to the new economy of Deliveroo riders, drivers, cyclists or whatever they may be, some of the issues that have come before the Labour Court and the courts over time relate to the rights of these individuals who are not unionised, for example. Picking up on Professor O'Hare's comments, taking into consideration what can be made available to these individuals in their employment contracts, such as they are, with some being zero-hours contracts, for example, which are the issues we have to struggle with, it is a different dynamic when dealing with a union that has teeth and power. Ultimately, it comes to collective bargaining and so on. Ultimately, there are new aspects of the economy which we need to consider to a greater degree which just were not there before.

We have heard of all these issues in the news and media but, going back to what Professor O'Hare said, we do not have time to get into the weeds and detail on these issues. Going back to the data protection sphere, the information that is being processed about individuals, including sole trader contractors, taxi drivers, or whoever they happen to be, is information that is going through systems. They may be algorithms, they may be, going back to what the professor said, deep AI-----