Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Amendment No. 5 arises from an amendment tabled by Senators O'Toole and McDowell on Committee Stage. Amendment No. 5 does not quite do what they intended but I was impressed by part of their argument and the Bill is considerably strengthened by the inclusion of this particular amendment, which concerns the right of the employee to get information about the number of employees in an undertaking. It is a reasonable amendment which strengthens the Bill considerably where the original amendment would not have done so. The other amendments arise from amendment No. 5.