Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not want it to come across that I do not agree with providing the right to remote working. I think that if it can be explored, it should be explored and everyone should have the right to have it considered. Nevertheless, all the unintended consequences need to be considered, from the points of view of both the employer and the employee.

If we are saying people will have the right to request to work from home, even where a company employs people remotely, will that give them a right to request that they be allowed to work in an office? For example, if there is an office in Dublin and somebody decides he or she wants to work in town one day with his or her workmates because he or she does not like the idea of being contracted to work from home, can that person, inter alia, make a different request such that, given the employer is allowing people to work from home, he or she should equally be allowed to work in the office?