Tomorrow is International Women's Day. Lots of nice words will be spoken but there are also concrete actions we could take. Ireland has a gender pay gap of 13.9%. In its legislative programme, the Government is committed to a gender pay gap wage transparency Bill. It is nearly one year to the day since the Labour Party published legislation in this area. This is legislation that the Taoiseach committed to support in his leader's speech to the Fine Gael national conference in the autumn. It has passed Second Stage and is on Committee Stage in the Seanad. It is ready to move to Report Stage. There is no reason the Government cannot make any amendment it wishes on Report Stage in the Seanad in order to ensure the Bill passes quickly into law, rather than waiting for its own legislation. Will this happen?

I expect to be in a position to report progress on these amendments. I firmly intend to have that legislation enacted at the earliest opportunity. We will have progress as soon as the Dáil reconvenes after St. Patrick's Day.