Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is a misrepresentation of what I said. If there are examples of people who cannot take their leave, where they are being refused leave by their employer, whether it is a public service employer or private sector employer, we want to know about it, because an employer in those circumstances is breaking the law. People are entitled to their annual leave and can carry it forward for at least six months into the second year. That is already the law. If people want to take their leave and are being refused that leave, that is a serious matter and we want to know about it. It can be adjudicated at the Workplace Relations Commission, and if it requires strengthening the law, I am open to doing that. So far, from the representations coming to us from our engagement with unions and employers, we are not seeing a significant number of cases where people want to take their leave and are being refused it.

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