David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have done a lot of work on remote working as an issue, in particular the impact it has on employers and businesses and on workers themselves. We have looked at the positives and the negatives. We have been talking about sustainable development goals. We have to consider that people do not have to travel; they can stay at home, they are not burning diesel or petrol, their quality of life improves and so forth. I recently engaged with a very skilled therapist in the public sector who has to spend one day per month doing administrative work. Her line manager said that she must come into the office. She told me that she is out of here and is going somewhere else. She is an extremely skilled therapist and is very diligent, but the way she was treated by her line manager was appalling. What are the witnesses’ reactions to remote working? Where does it stand? Can do more in respect of it?