Ms Mandy La Combre:

As I said, we have negotiated policies providing ten days. As far as I am concerned, ten days appears to be the norm. I have said before it is the floor rather than the ceiling. We have policies in place where we know when an employer is supporting somebody, if they have exceeded the ten days, the supports will not be stopped and those days will still become available to them. The policies say ten days in 12 months or whatever but they are not prescriptively sticking to that so it is, as I said, the floor rather than the ceiling. We should not be legislating for something that is less than the norm. We also should not be looking at the lowest common denominator or less than what we already have. We have these examples in the Republic of Ireland and we have them in Northern Ireland. This is where we should be looking at what is happening. These ones are working and employers are keen to get these in place now. They were not so keen for a very long time. The unions have been talking about domestic violence as a workplace issue since 2014-----