Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I will conclude. It undermines the International Labour Organisation convention of 1988 and the entire corpus of trade union legislation. We will now proceed, in the fact that this legislation will be law, with the issue unaddressed. Our only choice is to lobby publicly for the change in the Trade Union Act 1941 and to encourage artists to proceed with the court cases they were forced to abandon on the steps of the court. That is what I will recommend.

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