Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

If the amendment was to be accepted, its impact would be to replace the word "a" with the word "the". The reason the word "a" has been used is that three different threshold levels, namely, 150 employees, 100 employees, and 50 employees will be used up to 2008. They will be introduced at different stages, at yearly and biannual intervals, up to 2008. In that context, the term, "a threshold" was used because it refers not to one threshold but to three. I am advised that was the reason. As far as the principal point made by Senator O'Toole regarding the reference to section 4(2) is concerned, section 5(1) refers to it. That is the position.