I seek a debate on industrial relations as a matter of urgency. There is a new style of macho management developing which is evident in Peerless Rugs in Athy and The Irish Glass Bottle Company Limited. In my constituency ADM Limited has locked out 140 people without bothering to negotiate with them. It presented a fait accompli on a take it or leave it basis, and when workers would not take it, they were immediately locked out. In a country which sells partnership as its greatest institutional achievement the fact that this type of cowboy industrial relations is still ongoing says very little about the depth of IBEC's commitment to partnership. It is an issue we need to discuss.