Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the new paid paternity benefit scheme per county since its introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17412/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Paternity benefit was introduced in September 2016 and provides two weeks benefit, currently paid at the weekly rate of €235 per week, to support fathers in caring for their newly born babies. The number of people who have received the benefit, in each county, since its introduction is set out in the table below:

Paternity Benefit recipients from September 2016 – March 2017