Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-10-25-Speech-2-631-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:State of play of the Maternity Leave Directive (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
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lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-10-25-Speech-2-632-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Phil Prendergast2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, this is a timely question from Mrs Estrela, and I would like to thank her. I have been a midwife for over 20 years and I have heard some very discriminatory remarks here this evening. In Ireland, we have a good level of maternity leave and also an option for eight weeks’ unpaid leave, but the situation for fathers is nowhere near as good. They have no entitlement to paid leave at all. Fathers, in fact, can be very badly treated in the justice system across the EU, and workers in general have made huge sacrifices through cuts in pay, hours and allowances. It is time that we recognised this and granted fathers paternity leave. 19 EU countries already have paternity leave, and making a statement of intent to extend this meagre entitlement to fathers is the right thing to do."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Phil Prendergast (S&D )."1
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