Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

We are now entering a Trump world of alternative facts. The truth is that most people will see some improvement to the value of about a cup of coffee. The real cost of providing child care and being able to afford a home is receding from them, but that reality is lost on the Taoiseach. On the net question I asked, the Taoiseach stated that he is in favour of paid parental leave but we will have a law next year and perhaps parental leave being paid the year after that. Is it the Taoiseach's commitment in his programme for Government or his leadership manifesto that it may happen in two years' time? Why is it reported that he is resisting the EU legislation or is the report, authoritatively put in one of the national newspapers, false? Is that what the Taoiseach is saying?

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