asked the Minister for Finance if he will amend the conditions of employment of female civil servants to permit their continuance in employment after marriage.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Employment of Married Women.
18.
The position is as set out in my Financial Statement of 19th April, 1972.
Would the Minister not consider that I might have forgotten the details of that statement, historic though it was?
I think the Deputy is unlikely to have forgotten it. I said that the Government accepted the question of equal pay as a national aim. I also said that the related question of the marriage bar was being dealt with within the public service by way of the removal of the non-statutory items which operated as a marriage bar, and also the statutory ones, and that we hoped to have all of them out of the way within a period of two years as far as I recollect.
Questions Nos. 19 and 20 postponed.