Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Marie Mulholland:

I am listening. I love that Vodafone is willing to talk to other businesses. We might get Ms Mulqueen down to west Cork. Regarding confidentiality, we are mostly dealing with small businesses. There are a couple of big companies in Clonakilty, but employers are mostly involved in the hotel, leisure and tourism industry. They are small, maybe family-run hotels. Being able to tell employers what is going on would be extremely difficult, because not only do they know the employee, they probably know the partner who is the perpetrator too. They may even have connections or be related.

I have a question for Deputy O'Reilly. In order to make this work, would there be penalties for breaching confidentiality?

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