Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are dealing with HR issues and the HR function will be administering sick pay arrangements from 1 January. Will the counting of the clock be made retrospective? The most fundamental thing we learned is that legislation cannot be made retrospective. It cannot be backdated and it does not happen with tax. We see the counting of the clock in respect of sick days is going back a number of years. That runs against everything we have ever been told.