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Thu 12 Dec 2010Paid maternity leave 'a luxury which society cannot afford'
HEALTH:PAYING MATERNITY leave to a working woman whose husband was able to support her was unnecessary, according to a senior civil servant at the Taoiseach’s department in 1976.
Records released under the 30-year rule have revealed a note by civil servant M Stokes in response to maternity leave proposals circulated by Labour Party minister for labour Michael O’Leary in August 1976.
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