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dentist appointment. That is the Government parties' record on health. Working parents fork out the equivalent of a second mortgage on childcare fees. There is a serious lack of places in the system. There has been no real demonstration of respect and advancement for early childhood educators … childcare workers, and thousands of children are on waiting lists. Stress, worry, pressure is the Government parties' record on childcare. Households continue to struggle to make it to the end of the week, light and heat their homes and put food on the table, with soaring grocery bills

ensure every school's designs are fully accessible for all. The problems of parents do not stop there. There is the cost of childcare. Parents will tell you that in order to pay for early years childcare, it will cost almost an entire wage. The State should … ensuring that parents can afford early years childcare. As with many socioeconomic issues

simply a charter for more of the same and a blueprint for further crises. You have no clear plans to deliver on childcare or to change the lives of low and middle-income workers, there is no clear timeline to address the issues for carers, and there … working people, a government that ensures that people have a home, that they can see a doctor when they are sick, that childcare is affordable and that they have living costs that do not break the bank, and a government to restore the hope in our young people

supporting any of the nominations today. As a country, we face huge challenges, most acutely in housing, healthcare, the cost of living, childcare, disability services and climate change. We cannot face these challenges and increase investment in public services on the scale that is necessary while … underlying issue. The best way to bring costs down is to invest in quality public services and climate action. Investment in healthcare, education, childcare, public transport and clean energy would drive costs down and pay dividends in the future. We cannot allow threats, implied or otherwise, from other

door wide open for polluting LNG. It seems the private sector will continue to be relied on to deliver essential public services like childcare while workers' rights are only getting derisory treatment. The Government has abandoned initiatives such as drug policy reform and the citizens' assembly

Government must be to ensure that everybody can have a home of their own, to transform our health services, to deliver affordable childcare and to really tackle the cost of living. These things can and must be fixed but they will only be fixed by moving beyond

sign of positive change either from the programme for Government. There is no transformative vision, no State construction company, no public childcare scheme, no strengthening the protection of workers' rights and no radical measures to protect our climate and biodiversity. We in Labour cannot support this programme

Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in the context of the draft Programme for Government commitment to review and increase core funding for childcare services, if he can detail the actions that will be taken to entice childcare providers who have exited core funding back into core funding … thereby ensuring the fee cap is maintained for the benefit of all parents; if he will provide a forum for engagement with childcare providers who have exited core funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1754/25

Parliamentary Questions Nos. 91 of 15 May 2024 and 372 and 374 of 24 September 2024, when the Pobal early learning and childcare data website will be updated to include data gathered in relation to the 2023-2024 programme year; if he will provide details of what … these historical fee tables for programme years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 will be made available for each service provider on the national childcare scheme website. [1162/25

providing tax deductibility at the lower rate for any person employing staff on a full-time basis, for whatever purpose but particularly for childcare, or other care, purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2074/25

Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps a parent can take when there are no childcare places for children under two years in Mullingar even on a three-day basis (details supplied). [46256/24

Integration and Youth the measures Government is taking to support single mothers in balancing work and caregiving responsibilities, especially in relation to affordable childcare and social supports. [46495/24

Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers in Dublin West that are eligible for core funding; the number signed up for core funding in 2024 and 2025; the number that have applied for a fee adjustment

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of active fee reviews initiated by parents that are underway in each County Childcare Committee, in tabular form; and the number of fee reviews initiated by parents in respect of the 2024-2025 programme year which have concluded

Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to correspondence received by a childcare service in Dublin 11 regarding damage to its premises (details supplied), the immediate supports that will be offered to the service to ensure as little disruption to staff

Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to urgently tackle the childcare crisis, particularly the shortage of places available for children under the age of one in the Dublin Southwest area; and his views on the barriers

asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the regulations that are in place for after school clubs for child to childcare worker ratio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1523/25

Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will review the national childcare scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1551/25

McAuliffe asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the intended launch of a capital fund for childcare providers [1644/25