Mr Speaker, the World Bank report that the question refers to tells the story of insiders and outsiders who undermine social cohesion. Nowhere is this more obvious than where the report speaks of things like industrial concentration and labour market rigidities. My question to the Deputy President is: In this regard, in order to prevent the breaking out of an explosion of unrest associated with the dominance of certain trade unions in sectors like mining, would he support the replacement of closed- shop agreements with the proportional representation model for labour bargaining in such sectors, with minimum membership thresholds for participation?
Secondly, to prevent small firms which are not represented in bargaining councils from having to comply with conditions negotiated between big business and big unions at those councils, would he support scrapping the automatic extension of agreements to nonparties with reference to those bargaining councils?