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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: No, I will discuss the point the Minister made about disability when I move a later amendment.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 10: In page 8, line 26, to delete “12 years” and substitute “18 years”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 11: In page 8, line 31, to delete “16 years” and substitute “18 years”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 12: In page 8, to delete lines 32 and 33, and substitute the following: “(ii) has recovered from that long-term illness or any other long-term illness,”. The amendment deals with the unusual wording that flexibility working arrangements will end when the child "ceases to have that disability or long-term illness or any other disability or long-term...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: My amendment seeks to replace the words "ceases to have" with the words "has recovered from" because one can recover from something and not cease to have a disability. Will the Minister indicate what kind of disability someone would cease to have?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: The amendment states: "has recovered from that long-term illness or any other long-term illness” but should include the word "disability". My amendment simply proposes that the words "ceases to have" be replaced with the words "has recovered from". I can understand if that is in the Parental Leave Act or whatever, and why it might be taken from there, but it is that kind of...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: No, sorry. To include "disability" and to change "ceases to have" with-----

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Yes, "has recovered from".

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: How does that work?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Perfect. I will withdraw it then.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 15: In page 9, lines 22 to 25, to delete all words from and including “in”, where it firstly occurs, in line 22, down to and including “(b)”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 16: In page 9, lines 29 to 31, to delete all words from and including “, and” in line 29, down to and including “concerned”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 18: In page 11, lines 4 and 5, to delete all words from and including “or” in line 4, down to and including “matters” in line 5. The Bill gives employers an ill-defined and ambiguous reason to deny flexible working arrangements because of "any other relevant matters". The pre-legislative scrutiny report called for the removal of any such...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 20: In page 13, line 6, to delete “reasonable grounds for believing” and substitute “clear evidence”. This amendment is similar to amendment No. 18. Section 13G(2) allows an employer to terminate flexible working arrangements if they have "reasonable grounds for believing" that the employee is not using it for the approved circumstances....

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: "Reasonable grounds" is ambiguous and "clear evidence" would be stronger language. I will leave it at that.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on ensuring Castletownbere is classified as a larger town within the Connecting Ireland plan to ensure the Beara Peninsula is assigned the necessary scale of routes. [55633/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to increase the provision of sheltered bus stops. [55632/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure the temporary business energy support scheme is modified to enable SMEs to claim support for energy bills relating to the July and August 2022 period. [53861/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address the case of an individual (details supplied) who has received no decision on their permanent residency permit application. [56064/22]