Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Finance and Economics: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Justin McCamphill:

To answer the question what ICTU is doing to plan and prepare for constitutional change, the important thing to say is that we are not taking a position on constitutional change. However, there are other groups that are having that conversation. We are fully up for taking part in that conversation, just as if an alternative group were arguing for the maintenance of the union, we would be up for engaging in that and on the long-term prospects for workers' rights within it. We are coming at this from the aspect of workers' rights and the unity of the trade union movement. If we have a referendum, successful or unsuccessful, the day after it we will still be the voice of workers' rights and will want to have all those workers united with us.