Mr. Eamon Murphy:

Unsurprisingly, the Scandinavians are well ahead of us in this regard, as is Germany. They have been at this for 20 years and their results have shown that the more evenly split leave is between fathers and mothers, the more beneficial it is for the children in the long term, as well as in terms of educational perspectives, and it also gets fathers into the habit of playing an active role in parenting, as Dr. McDonnell will tell us.