Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality

Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Regina DohertyRegina Doherty (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise. In the programme for Government, we established that we were going to bring forward an incapacitated parents' pension payment for all those parents who, at a very early stage in their working lives, might give birth to a baby who would need lifelong caring. Therefore, their capacity to even reach the ten-year threshold was never going to be met. It is now being assigned as something we will do. Where are we with the drafting of the legislation? Have we got the heads of Bill yet? When can we expect to see them?

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