Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is timely because I would welcome the views of Ms Buckley and WorkEqual on domestic violence leave. Do they support the proposals of Deputies Louise O'Reilly and McDonald for a statutory ten days domestic violence leave? My colleague mentioned some of the organisations and companies that provide ten days leave, such as Danske Bank, universities, Vodafone and An Post. Essentially, the statutory leave of workers in those organisations has been halved as a result of the proposals of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman.

While I respect the Minister, I urge him to revisit this.

Ms Buckley mentioned the high-level group on collective bargaining. Yesterday, we all saw the recommendations and they will obviously be judged by the legislation. The need to protect collective bargaining in the workplace has never been greater and it has real consequences for terms and conditions at work, for workplace democracy, as Ms Buckley mentioned, and for low pay as well. While I and Sinn Féin welcome the recommendations on collective bargaining, they will be judged by the legislation. I would like to get Ms Buckley's initial response to those recommendations of the high-level group.