Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Ms Pauline O'Reilly:
On the question of supporting unpaid work, we may be moving to a situation where labour is automated but caring work will never be automated. There will never be a conveyor belt for older persons or vulnerable adults, whose numbers are increasing, or for children and nor should there be. We are going to have think in different ways about how we support all the valuable work using a smaller cohort of people who are paid for their work.
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