Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to follow up on one point. At this time intending parents do not have a right to the equivalent of maternity leave. While some employers are good on that point, there is no right for same in domestic legislation, so this is something we need to address. In an international context there is also a need to place that responsibility on the state of the intending parents, but from a surrogacy perspective, the recovery of the surrogate mother also needs to be enshrined in domestic law. We will have to have a recommendation on the equivalent of maternity leave and extend that to the domestic situation. Do the witnesses have any comments on that?