Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

7 o’clock

To be of help to Deputy Colreavy, what we are doing is introducing a single Bill to provide for the Workplace Relations Commission. Rights across 24 primary Acts and 34 related specified Parts would be impacted by the new provisions. The complexity of this has required the picking up of a number of amendments. Some are purely stylistic amendments to make the final Act easier to use on the part of practitioners by having references provided in a more standardised fashion. I can understand the Deputy's feeling but, obviously when these amendments are brought to our attention by the draftsman's office, we feel it is important to leave the Bill as easy to use as possible for the practitioners and absolutely thorough. There are some substantive amendments in the Bill but most of the amendments are of the nature I have described.

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