Ms Patricia King:

With regard to the workplace, as the Deputy knows, health and safety legislation at the moment requires the employer to ensure the employee is safe, as far as is practical and reasonable, while he or she is at work.

When a worker works from home, the home becomes a workplace, under current legislation. The employer would be expected to take action for the employee to be safe in the workplace and, therefore, the role of the Health and Safety Authority is important in order that, again, we will get that balance right. This is about meeting this progressive new way of working, and I have no doubt the means of doing that could be established.