Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Review of Workplace Arrangements: Department of Foreign Affairs

Mr. Joe Hackett:

I think it has been a difficult month for them with the carry through like this. They are far more junior than many others in that picture. My own personal view is that having them interrogated or implicitly interrogated in this way calls into question some of the fundamental principles of our maternity policy and what we are trying to achieve. I found that a difficult part of the review and I find it difficult to have this conversation because of the position that it puts them in.