Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

This country works on a partnership basis. I mentioned Government earlier. The Government listens through the National Economic and Social Council and the Labour Employer Economic Forum, LEEF, where we meet both employers and unions. One of the most positive and progressive developments in the past year has been the willingness of employers and unions to advance and improve the recognition of trade unions within the system in our country. The mechanisms to facilitate that are not perfect and may not meet every particular circumstance - I do not have the details of the dispute in the particular filling station to which the Deputy referred - but there have been advances in the recognition of trade unions in the past year through that partnership approach. That is what we will deliver on.

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