Social Welfare Benefits Dail Éireann — 2022-07-14 ============================================================ Colm Burke (FG), Cork North-Central This question may have been drafted before the announcement. When will the extension of parent's benefit from five to seven weeks take effect? How many parents have availed of parent's benefit to date? Will the Minister make a statement on the matter? --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2022-07-14/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:50:59+00:00 Sitting date: 2022-07-14