Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am delighted to hear about the early years arrangements and the analysis of shared leave and maternity leave. The Minister is very much correct about breast-feeding. The facilities in town are a problem. There is one shop in town to which every mother goes – I will not mention its name because it would be advertising – and the rest are appalling. I would not encourage any mother to go into town to do some shopping if she had to go into a department store to breast-feed.