Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps that she has taken to reform the sick pay scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49893/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The position remains that the range of complex issues associated with the possible introduction of a scheme of statutory sick pay, including such matters as the provision of possible compensatory mechanisms for particularly vulnerable employers, the extent of coverage of such a scheme, the appropriate rate of payment involved and how a scheme would be enforced, continue to be examined in the Department. As I have made clear previously, all of these issues need to be addressed to the satisfaction of the Government before any decision could be taken on the possible introduction of a statutory sick pay scheme.