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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Leaders' Questions are not a matter to be answered by the Leader of the Opposition.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Thomas Gould: They may be after the next election though.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I would not laugh about this topic.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Members should be careful what they wish for.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
(Interruptions).
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I would not think the Deputy would find it funny. It is not a funny issue.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: The parents of children with scoliosis and spina bifida who have been waiting years for operations would have been listening intently to the Taoiseach's budget yesterday. They would have been listening in the hope that he might finally hear their calls for action and deliver the investment and change that their children so desperately need so that they might get their surgeries to end the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I thank the Deputy very much for raising this issue. It is very important and I am pleased that we are raising it in this House. Nobody in the House wants to see any child wait in pain. Any suggestion from the Deputy that she does not but that I am somehow or other satisfied with children being left in pain is obviously not a fair portrayal of me or of any public representative in this...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister. That movement towards fair pay for the work being performed in these childcare settings is really important. We know one of the real issues is the retention of staff and a lot of that relates to pay grades and people moving on to some place where they can essentially afford their mortgage or whatever it is in their next stage. Where do the gaps still persist? The...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: The core funding model has been tweaked quite significantly between years one and three. In year one, funding was allocated according to the number of hours and the number of children that a service had but we recognised after year one that smaller services were disadvantaged by that. In year two, we brought in two changes. We brought in a minimum floor of core funding below which no...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Minister for his recent visit to the Waterford Childcare Centre, which is a really outstanding example in my constituency of that kind of community-owned and operated childcare model. There have been indications from the Minister and from other senior figures within the Government that we should look towards public provision as well. That begs the next question of how we see...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (2 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: I really enjoyed my trip to the Waterford Childcare Centre and the beautiful poster I received from the children and staff there with the handprints on it has pride of place in my office. We will have the opportunity in the general election to really tease out issue of the degree of State involvement in the provision of childcare because I recognise parental choice is really important...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Parental Leave
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 13. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will examine the anomaly that exists within parent's leave and benefit for one-parent families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38973/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 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.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy. There have been significant developments in the entitlements to family leaves and working family payments in recent years. The Government committed in the programme for Government to supporting parents, including by extending paid leave for parents to allow them to spend more time with their baby during the first year. Under the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (2 Oct 2024)
Claire Kerrane: I welcome that parent's leave has increased from two to nine weeks and it is a great support for parents, particularly when maternity leave is only 26 weeks and paternity leave at the moment is only two weeks. Despite all of that, regarding the one-parent family, if a baby is born into a one-parent family and the other parent is deceased, for example, there will be nine additional weeks; but...