Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

As the Senator knows, I originally proposed to bring paid domestic violence leave as a separate piece of legislation. As we were working through, we decided it would be more useful to incorporate it into the work-life balance directive Bill, which completes two final pieces of the work-life balance directive, that is, medical leave for carers and flexible working.

We are also putting the breastfeeding breaks element into that and we are also going to introduce statutory domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV, leave into that legislation on Committee Stage. Originally, they were kind of going on two separate tracks. Now, we are going to incorporate the DSGBV leave into the work-life balance directive Bill, which we will probably do with a Committee Stage amendment.