Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is important to point out, lest anyone think pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, was done on this, it was not. The PLS was conducted on an entirely different piece of legislation, one which, as we have already discussed, was inherently flawed, exactly as we might expect from this Government.

I asked the Minister a specific question in regard to the protections that apply. I take it from his answer that if someone agrees a remote working arrangement with their employer, those protections cannot kick in for six months even if they agree it on week one. I would be delighted to be wrong on that but my understanding of what the Minister has said is that if someone agrees it in the first week, or starts from the first week, on a remote working-type arrangement, the protections the Minister has outlined do not kick in until six months are up. Is that right?

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