Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The EU equality directive provides in Article 18 that:

[C]ompensation or reparation that the member states shall introduce into the national legal system such measures as are necessary to ensure real and effective compensation or reparation as the member states so determine for the loss and damage sustained by a person injured as a result of discrimination on the grounds of sex, in a way which is dissuasive and proportionate to the damage suffered. Such compensation or reparation may not be restricted by the fixing of a prior upper limit except in cases where the employer can prove that the only damage suffered by an applicant as a result of discrimination within the meaning of this Directive is refusal to take his/her job application into consideration.

ICTU is seeking to develop an amendment on that.