Emer Currie
Question:625. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of mothers who accessed maternity benefit in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [16408/26]
View answerTuesday, 3 March 2026
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The Department of Social Protection administers the Parent's Benefit, Maternity Benefit, and Paternity Benefit payments; matters relating to the associated leave are proper to the Minister for Children, Disability, and Equality. The number of recipients who received maternity benefit in the years requested by the Deputy is shown in the Table below. Figures are published quarterly by my Department at www.gov.ie/en/department-of-social-protection/collections/quarterly-statistics/. The quarterly statistics are a count of everyone who received at least one payment in the particular quarter.