{"id":633,"date":"2018-10-09T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/budget-2019-leaves-parents-short-changed-by-10-weeks-on-parental-leave\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:26:12","slug":"budget-2019-leaves-parents-short-changed-by-10-weeks-on-parental-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/budget-2019-leaves-parents-short-changed-by-10-weeks-on-parental-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2019 leaves parents short-changed by 10 weeks on parental leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"et-pullquote\"><p>\u201cToday\u2019s Budget provides for an extra two weeks of paid parental leave per parent. This is a meagre allocation \u2013 and it doesn\u2019t even kick in until November of next year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Social Democrats Spokesperson on Children, Councillor Jennifer Whitmore, has said the government has done the bare minimum to support working parents in Budget 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Whitmore said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s Budget provides for an extra two weeks of paid parental leave per parent. This is a meagre allocation \u2013 and it doesn\u2019t even kick in until November of next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis commitment calls into question the government\u2019s resolve to help working parents. The announcement today that the Government will only commit to seven weeks of paid leave in total means that it will fall very far short of the Minister\u2019s own target of providing 52 weeks of maternity and paternity leave combined over the lifetime of the current government. It will leave Irish parents 10 weeks short of that target. Ireland will remain one of the worst countries in the EU in terms of paid parental leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our Alternative Budget 2019, the Social Democrats committed to introducing eight weeks of paid parental leave in 2019, to be followed by further extensions in 2020 and 2021 so that the first 12 months of a child\u2019s main care can be delivered by parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>5<sup>th<\/sup> July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday\u2019s Budget provides for an extra two weeks of paid parental leave per parent. This is a meagre allocation \u2013 and it doesn\u2019t even kick in until November of next year.&#8221; Social Democrats Spokesperson on Children, Councillor Jennifer Whitmore, has said the government has done the bare minimum to support working parents in Budget 2019. 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