Emer Currie (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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98. To ask the Taoiseach the statistics that are collected in relation maternity and paternity leave in Ireland including whether they are taken, the duration of leave taken, whether they availed of the statutory payment only or whether their employer topped up their maternity benefit; and if so, to what percentage of their salary. [59334/25]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The publication “Employment Analysis of Maternity and Paternity Benefits” was first published in June 2020 with a follow up release in May 2023 as part of the CSO’s Frontier Series Outputs. CSO Frontier Series may use new methods which are under development and / or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources. Details on this release can be found on the CSO website.

The most recent publication covers the period 2019 to 2022 and relates to those who received a benefit payment from the Department of Social Protection in the reference year.

The tables below reference the relevant and available data from the release.

Table 1: Paternity Benefit Recipients and Rates, 2019-2022

Table 2: Statutory Maternity Pay and Employer top ups