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#Childcare

# childcare - Last week 15th June 2025 - 21st June 2025

Parenting: Affordable childcare? For lone-parent families? You're having a laugh...
# Working Parents
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# Working Parents

Parenting: Affordable childcare? For lone-parent families? You're having a laugh...

Sat 8:00 PM 6,562 Views 0 Comments

How do you manage the summer childcare crunch? We want to hear your stories
# Your Stories
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# Your Stories

How do you manage the summer childcare crunch? We want to hear your stories

Updated Sat 9:38 AM 12,441 Views 0 Comments

# childcare - Last month May 2025

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Low pay and no places: Protesters at Dáil demand government fix 'broken' childcare system
# Public Childcare Model
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# Public Childcare Model

Low pay and no places: Protesters at Dáil demand government fix 'broken' childcare system

May 1st 2025, 2:28 PM 8,687 Views 43 Comments

Campaigners say the childcare system in Ireland is “broken”.

# childcare - This year 2025

Analysis: The best way to reduce the gender pay gap is for fathers to have more paternity leave
# Sharing The Burden
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# Sharing The Burden

Analysis: The best way to reduce the gender pay gap is for fathers to have more paternity leave

Apr 27th 2025, 7:00 AM 9,841 Views 70 Comments

Government approves fee hikes at nearly 20% of Ireland's childcare providers
# The Morning Lead
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# The Morning Lead

Government approves fee hikes at nearly 20% of Ireland's childcare providers

Mar 7th 2025, 12:05 AM 41,979 Views 80 Comments

Opposition TDs say that it flies in the face of promises to reduce childcare costs to €200 per month.

Opinion: The public is ahead of government on the importance of Early Years and School Age Care
# Barometer 2025
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# Barometer 2025

Opinion: The public is ahead of government on the importance of Early Years and School Age Care

Feb 17th 2025, 7:00 AM 7,577 Views 43 Comments

Parenting: Why are we letting parents off the hook for failure to pay child maintenance?
# Letting Children Down
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# Letting Children Down

Parenting: Why are we letting parents off the hook for failure to pay child maintenance?

Updated Jan 27th 2025, 11:55 PM 13,097 Views 0 Comments

Nine in ten Dublin businesses say childcare crisis is barrier to recruiting (and keeping) staff
# Childcare
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# Childcare

Nine in ten Dublin businesses say childcare crisis is barrier to recruiting (and keeping) staff

Jan 13th 2025, 7:43 AM 9,847 Views 42 Comments

Opinion: When it comes to early years education, we're waiting for the Donogh O’Malley moment
# Childcare
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# Childcare

Opinion: When it comes to early years education, we're waiting for the Donogh O’Malley moment

Jan 4th 2025, 6:30 AM 11,725 Views 0 Comments

# childcare - Last year 2024

Katriona O'Sullivan: So many children in poverty and Fine Gael's answer is a savings account?
# Ge2024
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# Ge2024

Katriona O'Sullivan: So many children in poverty and Fine Gael's answer is a savings account?

Updated Nov 22nd 2024, 8:20 AM 13,821 Views 82 Comments

Public sector workers call for four-day work week and wage increases beyond inflation
# Next Government
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# Next Government

Public sector workers call for four-day work week and wage increases beyond inflation

Nov 14th 2024, 10:01 AM 48,477 Views 74 Comments

Fine Gael matches Sinn Féin pledge to cap childcare at €200 per child in first year if re-elected
# Policy Time
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# Policy Time

Fine Gael matches Sinn Féin pledge to cap childcare at €200 per child in first year if re-elected

Updated Nov 13th 2024, 1:07 PM 12,527 Views 117 Comments

Parents show great restraint not rioting over childcare
Childcare worker accused of ‘sickening’ attack on toddler in crèche
# Courts
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# Courts

Childcare worker accused of ‘sickening’ attack on toddler in crèche

Oct 28th 2024, 3:37 PM 66,420 Views 0 Comments

'I work part-time as I couldn't get childcare': Readers on what they'd like to see in the Budget
# The Morning Lead
From TheJournal.ie
# The Morning Lead

'I work part-time as I couldn't get childcare': Readers on what they'd like to see in the Budget

Sep 20th 2024, 12:01 AM 14,293 Views 56 Comments

Tax reform, funding for childcare and healthcare and Apple’s money were common features from our readers’ suggestions.

All childminders must be registered by 2027 and will only be allowed to look after six children
# New Rules
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# New Rules

All childminders must be registered by 2027 and will only be allowed to look after six children

Sep 19th 2024, 3:25 PM 42,231 Views 14 Comments

Taoiseach says there is a 'roadmap’ to higher Child Benefit for low income families but not in Budget 2025
# Childcare
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# Childcare

Taoiseach says there is a 'roadmap’ to higher Child Benefit for low income families but not in Budget 2025

Updated Sep 17th 2024, 3:49 PM 10,579 Views 27 Comments

Martin not a fan of Harris' 'half-baked' childcare plan and new Dept for Infrastructure idea
# FF VS FG
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# FF VS FG

Martin not a fan of Harris' 'half-baked' childcare plan and new Dept for Infrastructure idea

Sep 16th 2024, 1:18 PM 19,078 Views 14 Comments

Sinn Féin pledges to cap childcare costs at €10 per day and introduce 52 week parent's leave
# Cost Of Living
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# Cost Of Living

Sinn Féin pledges to cap childcare costs at €10 per day and introduce 52 week parent's leave

Sep 12th 2024, 5:59 PM 29,798 Views 117 Comments

Publicly funded childcare manifesto pledge and budget promises outlined at FG think-in
# Budget 2025
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# Budget 2025

Publicly funded childcare manifesto pledge and budget promises outlined at FG think-in

Updated Sep 11th 2024, 5:00 PM 14,266 Views 19 Comments

Green Party leader says €560 'boost payment' for new parents would have 'meaningful impact'
# Childcare
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# Childcare

Green Party leader says €560 'boost payment' for new parents would have 'meaningful impact'

Sep 9th 2024, 1:45 PM 13,085 Views 55 Comments

Parenting: Supernanny is right about 'sharenting', child influencers and school routines online
# Childhood
From TheJournal.ie
# Childhood

Parenting: Supernanny is right about 'sharenting', child influencers and school routines online

Aug 31st 2024, 7:00 AM 17,226 Views 0 Comments

One Galway creche explains why it’s closing its doors despite childcare funding increases
# The Morning Lead
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# The Morning Lead

One Galway creche explains why it’s closing its doors despite childcare funding increases

Aug 31st 2024, 12:05 AM 31,558 Views 3 Comments
  • Sheena Kenny closed the doors of her creche this week, labelling the Early Childhood Care and Education "death by a thousand cuts".
  • It brought increased paperwork and Kenny had to largely stop working directly with the children herself, instead spending her days in the office.
  • An increase in fees to cover running costs meant parents started putting their child in other larger, cheaper creches, which she couldn't compete with.
Two years of childcare should be legal right says Minister as subsidies to kick in Monday
# National Childcare Scheme
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# National Childcare Scheme

Two years of childcare should be legal right says Minister as subsidies to kick in Monday

Updated Aug 29th 2024, 6:51 PM 32,289 Views 42 Comments

Sinn Féin to publish policy on 'accessible and affordable childcare' in coming weeks
# Childcare Crisis
From TheJournal.ie
# Childcare Crisis

Sinn Féin to publish policy on 'accessible and affordable childcare' in coming weeks

Jul 28th 2024, 9:00 PM 10,393 Views 0 Comments

Free school books to be extended to Leaving Cert, as Harris says budget to target education costs
# Budget 2025
From TheJournal.ie
# Budget 2025

Free school books to be extended to Leaving Cert, as Harris says budget to target education costs

Jun 20th 2024, 6:05 PM 14,191 Views 58 Comments

Building commencements on new homes hit approximately 18,000 in April alone, Cabinet to hear
# Cabinet Agenda
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# Cabinet Agenda

Building commencements on new homes hit approximately 18,000 in April alone, Cabinet to hear

May 14th 2024, 5:00 AM 6,453 Views 0 Comments

Your stories: The stress, strain and heartbreak of trying to find childcare in Ireland
# The Morning Lead
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# The Morning Lead

Your stories: The stress, strain and heartbreak of trying to find childcare in Ireland

Apr 6th 2024, 12:05 AM 14,829 Views 0 Comments

“Our unborn child is on a waiting list for two creches and four childminders – yes, a waiting list. No place is confirmed.”

Are you struggling to source affordable childcare? We want to hear your stories
# Your Stories
From TheJournal.ie
# Your Stories

Are you struggling to source affordable childcare? We want to hear your stories

Apr 2nd 2024, 12:23 PM 9,261 Views 0 Comments

# childcare - All time

Opinion: The budget gave us baby steps forward when a giant leap for young children was needed
# Childcare Sector
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# Childcare Sector

Opinion: The budget gave us baby steps forward when a giant leap for young children was needed

Oct 12th 2023, 3:09 PM 7,039 Views 36 Comments

'Many families' paying higher fees will not see 25% cut to childcare costs
# Budget 2024
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# Budget 2024

'Many families' paying higher fees will not see 25% cut to childcare costs

Oct 11th 2023, 9:00 PM 19,080 Views 10 Comments

A cut of twenty-five per cent in average creche costs announced for September 2024
# Budget 2024
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# Budget 2024

A cut of twenty-five per cent in average creche costs announced for September 2024

Oct 10th 2023, 2:15 PM 15,232 Views 8 Comments

'I am broken mentally, physically and financially': What readers want to see in Budget 2024
# Your Stories
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# Your Stories

'I am broken mentally, physically and financially': What readers want to see in Budget 2024

Oct 8th 2023, 12:05 AM 59,383 Views 123 Comments

Finance Minister: 'People can be optimistic that their living standards are about to improve'
# Budget 2024
From TheJournal.ie
# Budget 2024

Finance Minister: 'People can be optimistic that their living standards are about to improve'

Updated Oct 7th 2023, 7:00 PM 25,378 Views 97 Comments

Further doubt cast over 25% childcare cost cut as Tánaiste fails to say if Govt will honour promise
# Budget 2024
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# Budget 2024

Further doubt cast over 25% childcare cost cut as Tánaiste fails to say if Govt will honour promise

Oct 5th 2023, 4:14 PM 10,158 Views 25 Comments

O'Gorman to push hard for significant childcare fee cuts in meeting with Donohoe tomorrow
# Budget 2024
From TheJournal.ie
# Budget 2024

O'Gorman to push hard for significant childcare fee cuts in meeting with Donohoe tomorrow

Oct 3rd 2023, 8:05 PM 12,643 Views 7 Comments

O'Gorman doubles down on need for fee freeze as childcare providers protest at Leinster House
# Growing Costs
From TheJournal.ie
# Growing Costs

O'Gorman doubles down on need for fee freeze as childcare providers protest at Leinster House

Updated Sep 26th 2023, 3:45 PM 23,979 Views 46 Comments

Minister says Govt 'under real pressure' to accommodate refugees in coming months
# Accommodation Crisis
From TheJournal.ie
# Accommodation Crisis

Minister says Govt 'under real pressure' to accommodate refugees in coming months

Sep 14th 2023, 1:12 PM 11,620 Views 0 Comments

Tax package, energy and business supports to form part of October's giveaway budget
# Budget 2024
From TheJournal.ie
# Budget 2024

Tax package, energy and business supports to form part of October's giveaway budget

Jul 26th 2023, 12:02 PM 20,373 Views 56 Comments

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