Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

I am a little disappointed by the reply of the Minister of State. I do not regard worker representation as an experiment. It has been in place for the past 15 years and appears to be working reasonably well. Rather than regarding it as dangerous and something to be guarded against, we should be trying to introduce it wherever we can.

On the issue of the number of members of the commission, the Minister of State said there would be one boss. The Taoiseach has a Tánaiste and I understand every Secretary General of a Department has a deputy Secretary General. Only the Secretary General of the commission, the Clerk of the Dáil, will not have a deputy Secretary General. I do not follow that argument.