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

Heather Humphreys said she felt 'very strongly' that women who on maternity leave should not suffer a sudden drop in income

Heather Humphreys said pay-related maternity benefit should for part of Fine Gael's general election manifesto. 

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.