Dáil debates
Wednesday, 7 December 2005
Budget Statement 2005.
4:00 pm
Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
This will cost a total of €35 million in 2006. I will be following this up with a further four weeks of paid maternity leave in 2007. Thus, by 2007, mothers of new-born children will be entitled to a full six months of paid maternity leave. Furthermore, unpaid maternity leave will be increased by four weeks in 2006 and a further four weeks in 2007, bringing total unpaid maternity leave to 16 weeks by 2007.
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