Paid Parent’s Leave is now more flexible and it is extended to five weeks

Each parent is now entitled to five weeks of paid parent’s leave for a child born or adopted on or after November 1, 2019.

Since April 1, new fathers and mothers working in agriculture in Ireland are entitled to take five weeks of Parent’s Leave after their child is born or adopted, instead of the two weeks that were previously available.

They can take the five weeks of leave at any time in the first two years after the birth or adoption of their child, instead of in the one-year period that was provided for in the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019.