Gerald Nash (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I authored the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015. Registered employment agreements are enterprise-level agreements, not sectoral agreements. The Minister of State has no function in calling the parties together and requesting that they engage in a sectoral employment order process. I understand the motivation of the Minister of State and that she may want to assist in this process but it is entirely, under legislation passed by these Houses, a matter for a trade union that is substantially representative of workers in a discrete economic sector or a representative body that is substantially representative of employers to make an application to the Labour Court for a sectoral employment order that would be universally applied across the sector. It is not the function of the Minister.