Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 10 February 2026
748. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide details of the percentage of women that have their salary topped up by their employer on maternity leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9598/26]
View answerThe Central Statistics Office (CSO) publication “Employment Analysis of Maternity and Paternity Benefits” was first published in June 2020 with a follow up release in May 2023 as part of the CSO’s Frontier Series Outputs. CSO Frontier Series may use new methods which are under development and / or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources. Details on this release can be found on the CSO website and are the responsibility of the CSO.
The most recent publication covers the period 2019 to 2022 and relates to those who received a benefit payment from the Department of Social Protection in the reference year.
The table below reference the relevant and available data from the release.
Table 1: Statutory Maternity Pay and Employer top ups
|
Payment Type (percentage) |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
Statutory Payment Only |
35.7% |
37.9% |
32.9% |
|
Received Employer Top Up |
64.3% |
62.1% |
67.1% |
