Replacing the Justice Minister, who is going on maternity leave, with a woman sends out a better message to aspiring politicians

First and foremost it gives Minister McEntee and her husband Paul some peace of mind as they focus on raising their first child.
But it does not resolve the ministerial maternity-leave quandary for any future female Cabinet minister who becomes pregnant while serving at the highest level of Government.
The Taoiseach acknowledged legislative or even constitutional changes will be necessary to ensure other female ministers, or indeed TDs, are faced with a workable situation. “We want to make sure that having a family is in no way in conflict with pursuing a career in public life,” Mr Martin said.
The constitutional requirement for the Cabinet to be made up of strictly no more than 15 ministers is the main stumbling block to introducing a more permanent solution for ministerial maternity leave.

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