Inquiry into leave for bereaved fathers not entitled to paid paternity leave
Speaking at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee yesterday, Sinn Féin’s John Brady highlighted what he said was a “serious anomaly” in the current system.
Mr Brady said under the scheme, mothers can avail of two weeks of the payment when parents experience a bereavement and lose their child unexpectedly after 24 weeks, but fathers currently cannot, and have to return to work.
