Parents currently receive a set €398.79 per month, but a report, requested by the Employment Minister and the Social Services Minister, suggests it should instead reflect the parent’s salary, with a fixed ceiling. Increasing parental leave pay-outs in proportion to household salary is among a raft of proposed reforms. The duration would be shortened to cover the first year of the baby’s life, rather than up to three years, as it is now, with a maximum of six months for each parent unless it is a one-parent family. The report also advises that childcare provision should be improved for one- to three-year-olds.
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