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

Seán Sherlock: On section 6, we put forward an amendment, which was ruled out of order, in respect of the right of an employee to seek leave without pay - it is important to stress it was without pay - from his or her employment for the purposes of obtaining services around reproductive health. We were prescriptive about it being where an employee has miscarried a child having a gestational age of 28 weeks...

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

Seán Sherlock: Let us for the public record state that, absolutely, Chairs within the Houses of the Oireachtas find themselves in the invidious position of having to sign off on these letters when somebody somewhere deems committee amendments are disallowed because there is a charge on the Exchequer. As proposer of the amendment, nobody comes to me to say they think the amendment will impose such a charge....

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

Seán Sherlock: I appreciate that and thank the Chair for her latitude. Is it not an awful indictment that we receive that answer? It is an indictment of the system we operate in this country.

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

Seán Sherlock: It is not the case.

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

Seán Sherlock: That is a fair point.

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

Seán Sherlock: Are these not premature cut-off points given the nature of society and that children have to be looked after into their teenage years as well? The numbers used are quite arbitrary.

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

Seán Sherlock: Is it possible to include those ages as part of the two-year review? It would be great to hear from the Minister after two years how that period had worked. The present Minister may be in situin two years' time or it may be his successor. I would not mind having an opportunity to look back at this legislation in two years' time to see how this provision worked in real terms.

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

Seán Sherlock: I only want to speak to the Minister's own language where he states, in section 13B(4), "An employee's approved flexible working arrangement shall not commence before a time when the employee concerned has completed 6 months continuous employment with the employer concerned." If I was to look at that from an employer's perspective, is the employer to adhere to the law, saying he or she...

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

Seán Sherlock: I think I understand the Minister. I suppose there may be circumstances in which a kindly employer may wish to be flexible towards his or her employee and within the six months, notwithstanding that the employee is temporary or whatever the employee's status is, there may be circumstances in which an employer would say that it is within the six months, he or she would like to give the leave...

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

Seán Sherlock: I might come back to it on Report Stage. We might tease it out further, if that is okay.

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

Seán Sherlock: I will press it too.

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

Seán Sherlock: Before we move on to section 9, can we go backwards for one second?

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

Seán Sherlock: In respect of the insertion of a new section 7, there is reference to leave for medical care purposes. A question arises as to what constitutes medical care purposes. Perhaps the Minister could come back with a more detailed explanation in that regard. How liberal or strident is that interpretation? That was all I wanted to say. The Chair was moving proficiently through the Bill.

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

Seán Sherlock: I am at the disposal of the Chair.

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

Seán Sherlock: The definition of leave for medical care purposes is unclear in my mind. How liberally will that be applied?

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

Seán Sherlock: I was going to speak to the generality of section 6 but am happy to come back in if other members want to stay on the points being raised.

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

Seán Sherlock: Is that section 5(2)-----

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: Last night, as I was sitting in my office, I tried to crystallise my thoughts around this debate. There is so much information for us to analyse that it is hard to encapsulate it within a reasonably short debate such as this. Nonetheless, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in the debate. We are fortunate as Deputies that there are many people outside this Chamber who are willing to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (27 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a timeline for the expansion of the public bike scheme (details supplied) in County Cork. [53982/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (27 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that a person (details supplied) in County Cork is not eligible to claim the incapacitated childcare credit given that they have two children in their care though fostering services who are both incapacitated. [54061/22]