Ms Patricia King:

I thank the Deputy for the question. The biggest issue is that we have to get the protection in the legislation. Workers want to be able to avail of this and they want to be able to ask but they do not want to be "afraid" to do that and they do not want their request to be declined. If they come to a place in their own circumstances where they want to make this application, they want to feel they have a good chance of it being conceded. At the moment, that is not the context or the backdrop within which we are working in certain industries. As the committee will know, some of the bigger players in our economy in some sectors have been progressive and have moved forward but-----