Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if support measures will be introduced for new mothers due to return to work in the coming weeks and months from maternity leave who are unable to do so due to Covid-19. [27383/20]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Government has agreed to extend the date for applications for the Pandemic Unemployment Payment to the end of the year.  The payment was due to close to new applications on the 17th September 2020 but it has been decided to extend this period at this time.

Where a person returning from maternity leave has lost her employment as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic they can make an application for the pandemic unemployment payment.

I trust that this clarifies the position at this time.