Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----but the lack of urgency is notable. The Bill from the Labour Party that is before the House today should be supported. Amendments are a normal part of the process of legislating. The same defunct argument was put forward by the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, as to why the Shared Maternity Leave and Benefit Bill from Fianna Fáil could not be supported, among other nonsensical arguments. The fact remains that the Bill is here. It is being supported and this notion that the Government can somehow not oppose but not support at the same time just does not make sense. The Government is sitting on the fence. It essentially wants this to be a Fine Gael Bill but it is not, it is a Labour Party Bill. The Labour Party has just beaten Fine Gael to it.

I referred earlier to discomfort, which is the other elephant in the room. Perhaps it is the case that businesses are quite uncomfortable with the thought of publishing this data and perhaps they are lobbying quite hard. Maybe that is part of the reason Fine Gael-----

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