Parental Leave
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-02
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Claire Kerrane (SF), Roscommon-Galway

I want to ask the Minister about the anomaly that exists in the nine-week payment for parent's leave and benefit for one-parent families and the fact that if someone has a baby and is part of a two-parent family there will be two nine-weeks of paid parent's leave whereas if it is a one-parent family there be just nine weeks. That is an anomaly that should be corrected.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-02