Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 27:

In page 9, line 8, to delete "(other than the last 3 classes in such a set)".

On the one hand, the Minister of State claims that what these amendments will rectify does not need to be provided for because the class is normally held during the one pre-confinement month, when maternity leave has commenced. However, logically, there can be no objection to providing a right to leave the last three classes. For example, what if the third last class is held before the employee takes maternity leave? Without this amendment to the Bill, she would not have the right to attend it.