Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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If they man a telephone or are working on a project, someone else must step in, and in most workplaces people do step in. If I told someone in the private sector that he or she might have to step into the shoes of someone else for an hour every week, their first thought would be to accept that cover was part of the job. Their second thought would be to question where that person is. I would have an issue with that. If I was told that, once every two weeks, I might have to work through lunch because the company was doing something in particular, I would accept that as part of my job.