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

This amendment to section 20A(5) seeks to ensure that the reporting of gender pay gap information by employers occurs annually. The subsection as drafted provides some assurance to employers that the requirement to report will not be less than annually. While it is my intention that reporting will be annually, though, the subsection provides the level of flexibility that I referred to earlier and allows for some information to be set out in the regulations rather than in the Bill itself. It is my intention to set out clearly the form, manner and frequency of reporting with the reporting being done annually, but I would prefer that the final Act remain flexible should an issue arise during drafting of the regulations or when reporting commences. It will be an annual reporting process, but I wish to maintain a slight degree of flexibility by allowing that to be set out in the regulations as opposed to in the primary legislation.