Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When the Minister talks about co-operatives, it is important to always keep in mind workers' co-operatives. I believe they are an important factor in the forthcoming legislation on which we hope to put some focus. In respect of the CSDDD, at the final meeting of the Ministers before the general approach was agreed, the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, spoke about the lack of provisions for gender in the Council draft. I felt that was an important intervention. He called on the European Parliament to fix the gap. Can the Minister, Deputy Coveney, put on the record that he will work to ensure that the corporate sustainability due diligence directive, which just drips off the tongue, will have clear gender provisions in the text that is agreed at the trilogues? This is important. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary's intervention and the fact that he highlighted this. I hope the Minister, Deputy Coveney, will take this opportunity to restate our commitment to ensuring that there are clear gender provisions in the text that is agreed.