Ivana Bacik (Independent)

I am grateful to the Cathaoirleach for the clarification. All of us have found that in practice the Bills Office can be more flexible than might be initially suggested, which is welcome.

This is an opportune day to call for a further debate on methods of bottom-up job creation. On the day the Government is launching the national internship scheme, with places for 5,000 jobs in training, we should congratulate the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton. We should also applaud the launch by the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade this morning of a new creative quarter in the Liberties in Dublin 8. The Fumbally Exchange was set up by George Boyle, a former architect with Murray O'Laoire Architects. Along with a number of colleagues she has set up a new creative hub where start-up design businesses can be established for a very reasonable rent in a quarter that was left decimated by the closure of Murray O'Laoire Architects. Those people should be congratulated for their bottom-up approach to job creation. It is the sort of initiative we should support across the Houses of the Oireachtas and we must do our best to facilitate them.

I ask for a debate on the HSE report produced yesterday by the crisis pregnancy wing of the executive. It detailed the experience of mothers in the workplace and found that, alarmingly, a third of mothers in work during their pregnancy stated that they experienced unfair treatment. It is the first Irish study of its kind and it would be worthwhile considering how mothers are treated in the workplace. On the day we are congratulating Senator Cullinane, we might also consider how fathers are treated in the workplace and whether paid paternity leave can be introduced.