This Bill will bring the workings of the European Union closer to this country and will result in greater scrutiny by the Houses of the Oireachtas of European Union legislation, directives and everything else which emanates from there. I wonder if the likes of Deputy Joe Higgins, members of Sinn Féin and members of the Green Party, whose Deputies in the other House I class as reasonably intelligent, would take time out of their busy schedules to look at the directives Brussels has introduced for workers. These include the equal pay and equal treatment directives, the directives on collective redundancies and transfer of undertakings, which obliges employers to consult employee representatives when redundancies are transferred to another employer or are being considered, the directive guaranteeing the rights of workers if their employer becomes insolvent, the directive obliging employers to issue workers with a written contract of employment, the extremely wide-ranging health and safety directives, the maternity and parental leave directives and the directives guaranteeing equal pay and treatment to part-time and temporary workers, soon to be joined by a directive on workers who are employed through agencies.