Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Bríd Smith is right about this and she is right to raise it. I have looked at the word "waiver", which, instinctively, is not a word that sits comfortably with me. I took legal advice between Committee Stage and Report Stage because we discussed this on Committee Stage and my understanding is that it is basically legal clarification that if someone goes through the tribunal and receives an award, she cannot then go through the High Court and seek an award there. In that sense, it would not apply to the laboratories. The idea is that it is basically clarifying that if a woman gets an award in the tribunal, she cannot then get the same award for the same issue in the High Court so it-----

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