Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

I welcome these benefits, they are an improvement on what we had and I hope such improvements will continue in the coming years so we can enable women to stay at home for up to a year in the long term. We also want to see fathers being more involved and would welcome paternity leave. I am concerned, however, about delays with the Parental Leave Bill. All of these measures are of benefit to parents but we must build on them in coming years.