Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Senator Higgins. Like her, I have spoken to the FSU about this Bill. I met it a number of weeks ago and it is pleased to see it advanced.

As the Senator pointed out, there is a provision on bonuses. Section 20A(1)(b)(iii) refers to the difference between the mean bonus remuneration of employees of the male gender and that of employees of the female gender as expressed as a percentage. In terms of the design of the regulations, we will engage with officials in my Department and the Department of Finance on how we can shape those regulations to seek to capture the points on shares and the special tax rate in respect of the bonus heading. I will endeavour to see what we can do when the regulations are being drafted.