Mothers should receive pay-related maternity benefit, social protection minister says

Pay-related maternity benefit should form part of Fine Gael’s general election manifesto, Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys has said.

The Fine Gael deputy leader said linking maternity benefit to income would not be carried out by the current Government, but that it was something that should be looked at after the next general election.

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