Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Employee representatives. That is one example which differs from a secret ballot. It allows the parties to use whatever system may already be in place in an undertaking but also allows parties to put in place a weighted system with numerous branches containing slightly different procedures, and where perhaps the parent plant has a great number and some of the others have quite small numbers. In those circumstances it might be agreed that a weighted system should be in use which would enable the greater number, or their representatives, to approve. That would not require a ballot.

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