Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To continue on that, I agree with Ms King 100% that the legislation, in its current format, will not work for anybody. It is literally a tick box for employers. If they had no imagination at all, they could just read out the lines in the legislation as a mechanism for refusing requests. We know that, but when we are talking about making it fit for purpose and when Ms King is talking about increasing the number of grounds on which to base an appeal, in what direction should we be pushing the legislation? Obviously, I have ideas, many of which are born out of experience while others I developed from consultation. From Ms King's perspective and with a view to ensuring that balance, how should we be directing this legislation? If she would like to be prescriptive, is there a country that has already done this to which we could point and whose model we could replicate? Should we try to be leaders - God forbid - and get this absolutely right and see it delivers for everybody?