Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Women in Work Index has found a 14.8% difference in median pay between men and women. In other words, a woman working a 40 hour week effectively works the final six hours for free. The time is long past, and I think everybody in this House would agree, when men should automatically be paid more than women. Will the Taoiseach support yesterday's call by the trade union IMPACT for legislation requiring employers to publish details of the gender pay gap within their companies? Will he indicate that if we produce such legislation he will support it? In its programme for Government, this Administration promised to strengthen the role of the Low Pay Commission in respect of the gender pay gap. What specifically is it doing to implement that commitment?

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