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could not access disability services for their children or special needs places in schools, who simply could not access a childcare place for a newborn baby or toddler, or who are facing enormous difficulty in getting back to work. These are people who have been let down … schools and hospitals. It is perpetuating the national scandal of 4,500 children without a home. We see a lack of childcare and school places, overcrowded hospitals with lengthening waiting lists and trolleys in corridors, and of course the existential threat posed by climate change. This week, headlines

affordable for working people, a Government that would transform our health services and end the wait for treatment, one that would introduce affordable childcare for families, ensure a better, fairer deal for ordinary workers and ensure that our young people can build a future and a life here

places for their children, and we all know about that huge issue across the country. It is about the parents struggling to find childcare when their child's crèche closes. It is about young adults booking one-way tickets to Australia because they see no future for themselves

doors was the cost-of-living crisis. Once-off payments are not enough for struggling families who find it impossible to pay for childcare, heat homes and put food on the table. Regarding small businesses, we expect anyone negotiating for Government to demand an immediate drop

transform our health service, to ensure people get the healthcare and treatment they need, and shaped by the resolve to deliver affordable childcare for families, to meet the cost-of-living crisis head on, to ensure that those on average incomes never again pay USC, to ensure that

world our values of education, equality, anti-racism, social justice, sustainability and empowerment. Let us be ambitious about developing a public model of childcare that delivers quality services, pays staff accordingly and does not cripple young families with a second mortgage payment. We cannot ignore the reality that

detached homes. We are putting people onto the streets. They have nowhere to go. Some 10,000 people are affected. We also need childcare facilities and leisure centres. A load of work needs to be done in Donegal. We are being abandoned. Donegal needs help. We need

formed. The Irish people said to us that a major job of work is to be done with regard to housing, health, childcare, elder care, disability, immigration, child poverty, regional disparities, climate change, carers and public sector reform. We expect the Government to get on with