Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Working Bill 2021: Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

Mr. Dermot Mulligan:

We discussed this earlier. The answer is "Yes". We are considering the number of grounds and the wording of them. The Deputy might have been here when I said we are trying to find the right balance between an employer who has to run a business and an employee who has an interest. We want to create a right to request remote working, and we want to promote remote working in general. We see all the benefits that has for the employee, the employer and, indeed, wider society and the economy. We have to take all that into account. In considering this piece of the grounds and so forth, we will be reflecting on all that.

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