Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

The reason for the reference "in accordance with redeployment procedures determined from time to time by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform" is that in effect, in today's parlance, that is the Croke Park agreement and the fact that in return for an agreement by the social partners and the representative organisations there would be no compulsory redundancy. That is the essence of it. It is couched in this way because one cannot put an agreement such as the Croke Park agreement into necessary legislation or it would not be advisable or best legislative practice to do so. That is what that means. There is an undertaking in return for certain assurances - with which the Senator will be familiar - about the permanency of employment commitment from the social partners on the trade union side to be productive and flexible in terms of productivity, which is in the course of being delivered, and that is what is there. If a person refused redeployment, in some circumstances there might have been another sanction, and that is what this is attempting to address. Removing that does not give the person any additional cover, rather the position is quite the contrary.