Ivana Bacik (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I take the Minister of State's point about the powers of the Revenue Commissioners but I believe that there would have been a way of working with us - as already stated, we aim to work constructively - to, perhaps, have arrived at a changed wording to ensure the sort of protections we seek could have been included in the legislation. I very much welcome the wording already in section 28B, which the Minister of State quoted, on protections against people being laid off. However, I am of the view that here would have been a way of dealing with our recommendation more constructively in order to ensure that it could have addressed our concerns and, perhaps, incorporated a reference to the Workplace Relations Commission.