The legislation will afford benefits and protection to employees who wish to start their families and will allow them to do so in a structured way, thus ensuring they will not find themselves worse off financially. Ideally, there should be more crèches, especially in public places. The fact that there is none in Leinster House is probably an indictment in itself. I am told one has been promised for some years but I am not sure what progress has been made on it.