Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I think Ms O’Hare is focusing on the wrong element of it. My suggestion was that IBEC is suggesting that the Government was introducing too much paid leave, citing the extension of parental leave, the introduction of statutory sick pay and the domestic violence legislation. It is a broader tone here; it is not just on the issue of domestic violence. It is a broader tone that the statutory provision of leave was something that IBEC saw as regressive, as opposed to seeing it as progressive.