The SPEAKER (4:23 PM) —Yesterday, the member for Denison asked me a question relating to negotiations that are currently under way on a new certified agreement for parliamentary security staff. The particular issue raised was whether staff were being requested to trade off rights to return to work under maternity leave provisions for increased wages. Staff were never asked to trade off maternity leave provisions for increased wages; the issue was the availability of part-time work on their return from maternity leave. I have been advised that the management negotiating team is agreeable to retaining in the new agreement the terms in the existing agreement, which states that an employee returning to work from maternity or parental leave will, on application, be given access to part-time employment. I am not sure whether the member for Denison had seen this statement. It came out just before question time, and the opportunity to make it available to him was therefore restricted. As he is aware, I would normally have given him preliminary notice.