Mr. David Joyce:

I will kick things off and Ms Ryan may like to add to it. As people have said, some of the law regarding the WRC is quite complex. We train with affiliates, have produced a guide to the Employment Equality Act and so on, but it is not enough and much more could be done.

Improvements in collective bargaining, protection for unions in accessing workplaces and so forth, as outlined by the Respect at Work campaign, is a key issue for us in the coming period. The Government is due to develop an action plan on collective bargaining and we have done a detailed submission on it, which we are happy to share if it is of use to the committee in its deliberations. It would certainly strengthen our hand to have a much stronger legal framework for collective bargaining and accessing workplaces for developing this work in terms of protecting against workplace discrimination, etc.