Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I move amendment No. 11:

In page 5, subsection (2), between lines 29 and 30 to insert the following new paragraph:

"(e) the provisions and procedures contained in the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 and the Industrial Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004.".

This may simply be an inadvertent omission from the list of legislation but the Minister of State will agree that everything in this Bill must be without prejudice to the Act — namely, the Industrial Relations (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 — to which I referred in my amendment. It was a difficult item of legislation in respect of which all the social partners had great difficulty in coming to agreement. No one would want anyone to be in a position to play games with the Act at this stage or to use the provisions of the proposed legislation as a method of not becoming involved in collective bargaining or not dealing with the issues pertaining to that Act. In particular, as other legislation is listed in the Bill, it must also be without prejudice to that Act. Perhaps the Minister of State will accept that the Bill is also without prejudice to the Act.