Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2023-01-31
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Mary Seery Kearney (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I will support the Minister’s amendment. However, I would like to raise some of the concerns that have been raised by Women’s Aid in respect of the non-paid element. If you require domestic violence leave, you are at a particularly vulnerable and precarious time of your life. To oblige a situation whereby an individual is minus their income, as well as everything else, brings on a financial hardship that is unwarranted.
I am being looked at funnily. Should I stop? Have I moved on?

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Sitting date: 2023-01-31