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‹ Order of Business Maternity benefit changes
Summary
Senator Walsh supports criticism of maternity-benefit changes affecting women giving birth after 23 April, while making broader political criticisms that Senator Norris rejects.
I agree with Senator Colm Burke in his criticism of the Government for the changes that will be to the detriment of women who will have children after 23 April when they will be deprived of maternity benefit, but I do not share his surprise. Given everything the Government has done, particularly if one goes back to it legalising last summer, unnecessarily, the aborting of babies, where it is of no benefit to the woman, it has shown itself to be the Government that is the most anti-child in the history of the State.
