Dad's World with Jonathan deBurca Butler

From September 1, fathers are eligible for paternity benefit when they take their statutory two weeks of paternity leave.

And so it has arrived. A year (or maybe it was nine months) after it was first mooted by then Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald, paternity leave is finally here.

Social Protection Minister, Leo Varadkar, announced the launch recently of an awareness campaign for a “ground-breaking measure, which provides a guaranteed income of €230 a week for two weeks”.