Ms Maeve McElwee:

To give effect to those we may need legislative change. However, it is reasonable to say we have a pretty robust Workplace Relations Commission, with which both IBEC and the trade unions have worked successfully. There are already significant protections for workers within that and within different pieces of legislation around activity and engagement with trade unions. We even have legislation under the unfair dismissals Acts. We have codes of practice on victimisation and all of the pieces of legislation address that. There is definitely legislation in place and those will be kept under review.