Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I move amendment No. 17:

In page 6, line 26, after "from" to insert "a trade union or excepted body,".

This amendment extends the same import. A trade union or excepted body should be able to request the information in any undertaking — that is the net issue — regardless of whether the employer recognises it. It is important that basic information on the operations of a company would be available to the trade union and that the resistance of a company to recognise the trade union should not be an impediment to it getting such information. It is linked to the representative issue for an unrecognised trade union that we discussed earlier but it is separate to the extent that we are talking about a separate issue. It is not representation; it is access to information. It is an important issue.

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