Marie Sherlock (Labour) | Oireachtas source

We will not necessarily talk about the committee because I think it is about the statutory instruments in particular. Certainly the ambition to have a zero rate for overdue transpositions would be very welcome. I want to ask about last Friday. The European Commission issued a communication about the directive on work-life balance. That is now 15 months overdue. Can the Minister of State talk me through the process? How many times does the Commission have to tell a member state it is late? We saw last Friday that we are being referred to the ECJ. Can you talk me through the process? I am a bit worried that there is money that the Irish State is going to have to fork out because it has not got its act together. There is bureaucratic time as well being spent not commencing a Bill that is on our Statute Book for the past eight months.