Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 July 2016

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Paternity Leave and Benefit Bill 2016: Committee Stage

9:00 am

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I move amendment No. 14:

In page 16, to delete lines 41 and 42 and substitute the following:“(6) A person shall retain a notice given to him or her under this section.

(7) A person who gives a notice under this section shall retain a copy of the notice.”.

This amendment clarifies that the obligation to retain a notice under section 16 which deals with the abuse of paternity leave applies to the persons giving and receiving the notice. The Attorney General advised that this was a technical amendment that needed to be made.