Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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I see that Senator Ruane is very passionate about the proposals regarding non-disclosure agreements. I apologise; I had the wrong notes for today. On the amendments and the NDAs, the Minister speaks about the Irish Cancer Society, and we have issues around maternity leave and medical treatment. Can the Minister give us a guarantee from this meeting? I am learning about this today because of one of the other areas I am very passionate about and about which I spoke earlier. We are all talking about the election and about it being held in November, January or February. It is good for us as mothers and as women that we get this through, as the Minister said. Is there anything else that can be done besides that? What will be the protocol? The Minister spoke about the different issues, but what does he recommend we do that would help us when going through the different amendments and different things that are being done? This is very welcome by the way. I thank everyone for this. I have been reading through it again and it is really good legislation.