# Childcare
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What kind of difficulties have you faced with childcare? We want to hear your story
21 Jan 2022
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Childcare
Antigen testing programme to be rolled out for early learning and childcare services from tomorrow
14 Dec 2021
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No Child Left Behind
Childcare providers hold Dáil protest over children 'falling through the cracks'
5 Oct 2021
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The Daily Poll
Poll: How do you think the State should fix issues with accessing childcare?
28 Aug 2021
27.2k
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THE MORNING LEAD
'I have no idea who will mind my children': Readers' stories of Ireland's childcare crisis
28 Aug 2021
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Get in touch
Have you faced difficulties finding childcare for your young child? We want to hear your story
26 Aug 2021
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Early Years
Call for increased investment in early years childcare sector, especially for under threes
26 Aug 2021
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Voices
Opinion: 'Formal childcare for small babies in Dublin is a fiction. It effectively does not exist'
Liz Carolan
5 Aug 2021
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Childcare Costs
Unicef: Ireland one of the most expensive countries for childcare as half of salary is average cost
18 Jun 2021
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Voices
Opinion: Without a public childcare model there can be no equality for women
Orla O'Connor
29 May 2021
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the good information project
'Your mammy brain and working woman brain should not be in the same room': Work and childcare after Covid
2 May 2021
24.0k
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department of children
Report on pay levels in childcare sector to be finalised in coming days
4 Feb 2021
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Voices
Opinion: Childcare providers are still no clearer on the government's long-term plans
Regina Bushell
29 Jan 2021
10.0k
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level 5
Deal struck with Government to provide funding for childcare services for essential workers
Updated
8 Jan 2021
40.1k
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Creche
Childcare services to remain open but only for vulnerable groups and children of essential workers
Updated
6 Jan 2021
38.2k
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Childcare
Explainer: What childcare options are available in Level 5 and who gets priority?
4 Jan 2021
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Childcare
Review finds that the average cost of delivering childcare across all services in Ireland is €4.14 per hour
19 Oct 2020
18.6k
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Voices
Opinion: Foster care is in trouble in Ireland and its privatisation is not the answer
Patrick Costello
14 Sep 2020
23.7k
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Voices
‘Children's needs should be the priority for after-school services’
Marian Quinn
23 Jul 2020
12.7k
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Voices
‘Without state interventions many childcare providers will go out of business’
Sarah O’Leary & Michele Akerlind
22 Jul 2020
10.2k
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Voices
‘Time to radically reform childcare and break the tension between fees and quality’
Darragh O’Connor
21 Jul 2020
13.5k
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Voices
‘We are essentially paying out a second mortgage in childcare every month’
Lynda Butler
20 Jul 2020
28.5k
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Voices
Opinion: Maternity leave in lockdown was no picnic, so please don't forget new parents
Patrice Hosford
17 Jul 2020
31.8k
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childcare troubles
Hundreds of childcare providers say they won't be able to stay open without more government supports
15 Jul 2020
14.1k
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Voices
As a creche owner, I had butterflies on Monday, but we're getting there
Margaret Connell
2 Jul 2020
13.7k
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Childcare
'It's been a long 16 weeks': Anticipation tinged with nerves as creches prepare to re-open
28 Jun 2020
25.3k
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FRONTLINE WORKERS
'An absolute scandal': Ireland has the highest Covid infection rate for healthcare workers in the world, committee told
Updated
23 Jun 2020
146k
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Childcare
Childcare providers warn of reduced capacity and need for longterm financial support
Updated
23 Jun 2020
19.7k
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Childcare
Childcare providers to tell TDs uncertainty is having 'profoundly stressful impact'
23 Jun 2020
16.0k
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Childcare
State grants will ensure childcare providers should have no reason to increase fees, says minister
10 Jun 2020
15.8k
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Childcare
Childcare crisis: 'I looked at my 14-year-old and asked 'Will you manage babysitting the others?''
9 Jun 2020
66.0k
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Covid-19
People will rely on family and friends for a ‘dig out’ until creches reopen, says minister
7 Jun 2020
27.3k
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Childcare
'Play-pods' of up to 12 children to be introduced in creches as they reopen from 29 June
29 May 2020
26.6k
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Voices
The government's Covid-19 childcare plans, while noble, will not benefit children
Karen Clince
26 May 2020
24.4k
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Lockdown
Varadkar 'increasingly confident' Phase One of lifting restrictions will begin on Monday
14 May 2020
22.7k
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Front Line
Childcare for healthcare workers - how a promised scheme failed to materialse
14 May 2020
10.2k
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Coronavirus
'Shambolic': Government told to 'go back to the drawing board' over failed childcare scheme for healthcare workers
Updated
14 May 2020
33.6k
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