Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have also bought in the national childcare scheme, which means increased subsidies for hundreds of thousands of children and also that people on middle incomes will qualify for the first time. We brought in increased and longer maternity benefit, parental benefit and paternity benefit for the first time. This is very much a Government that is building a society with the family at its centre and that is trying to make life easier for families.

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