Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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37. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is a plan to expand entitlements to flexible working and remote working contained in the Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 to all employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38750/24]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Government is committed to supporting workers, and working parents in particular.

The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023 provides for a right to request flexible working for parents and carers, as provided for in the EU Work Life Balance Directive. Such flexible working arrangements will allow parents and carers to alter their working day or pattern to care for children or others for whom they have caring responsibilities. The Act also provides for a right to request remote working for all employees.

The right to request flexible working for parents and carers and the right to request remote working for all employees, were commenced on 6 March 2024 following the preparation of a Code of Practice by the Workplace Relations Commission.

The 2023 Act provides explicitly for a review of the right to request flexible working for parents and carers two years after commencement of those provisions.