Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am interested in what Professor Murphy said there and in what she said about the four-day week. The Acting Chair is probably sick to the teeth of me giving the example of a constituent of mine who was working in a senior commercial firm. She was a partner in that firm. Consider the dynamic. We are trying to get more women across the board in every organisation, especially commercial organisations, which have been so gendered in the past. She took a three-day week and he remained at a five-day week to address the care needs of their two young children, instead of the blindingly obvious solution, which was two four-day weeks, with all the benefits of equality, pensions, opportunities, participation and the normalisation, in a commercial world, of a man requesting a four-day week for three years to address the care needs of his children.