Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Government amendment No. 4:

In page 3, to delete lines 16 to 31, and in page 4, to delete lines 1 to 4 and substitute the following:

“(d) by inserting the following subsection after subsection (8):

“(8A) Where, before the specified day, a person who is a relevant parent in respect of a child has not taken 18 weeks parental leave in respect of the child (and irrespective of whether the person was prevented from taking all or any of the parental leave by the operation of subsection (2) as in force before the specified day) then on and from the specified day this Act, as amended by the specified Act, shall apply to so much of the 18 weeks of parental leave as was not taken before the specified day in respect of that child.”.”.