Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In the section of the Bill that talks about the rights of students unions, which we discussed earlier on.

With regard to the use of the term "staff association," this legislation is for the future, and even if there are not any staff associations now, we do not want to preclude them, if there were any in the future, from being covered under the Bill. As I stated, the term is used in a pile of other Acts. This is not to say that we want somehow or other to turn trade unions into staff associations. It is simply to cater for possibilities that could arise in the future, even if they do not exist at present in this sector.

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