Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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268. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when legislation will be introduced to extend parent's leave; the estimated timeframe in which he envisages this legislation will be passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3396/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 introduced two weeks of paid parent’s leave for each parent to be taken in the first year after the birth or adoptive placement of a child.

Under proposals approved by Government in December 2020, each parent will be given an additional three weeks of paid parent's leave, and the period in which it can be taken will be extended to the first two years after the birth or adoptive placement of a child.

It is anticipated that the legislation will be introduced in early 2021.