childcare

Roderic O’Gorman said his party ‘with 12 TDs has been able to deliver more’ than Labour with 37

Paschal Donohoe accuses party of ‘raid’ – but Pearse Doherty says party would add more money to future funds

Election 2024: Social Democrats pledges €1 offpeak public transport fares and 50,000 affordable purchase homes if in government

Simon Harris’s party has promised €7bn-worth of tax cuts, €2.5bn pension increases and a range of public sector spending

Despite the best of intentions and some strong ideas, Goodhart seems to underestimate the extent to which he pushes readers’ buttons

Minna Murphy is happy to see early education becoming a ‘political hot potato’ in the run-up to the election with just about everybody promising more money.

All main political parties have committed to capping fees charged to parents, with most saying €200 per child would be the most any family would have to pay

Mother of girl says her child’s arm was twisted several times and former staff member asked child not to tell anybody

Like other parties, Fine Gael has also pledged that parents will pay no more than €200 per month per child

Fine Gael is expected to pledge to cut inheritance tax substantially when it unveils its manifesto at the weekend

Department of Children has received applications for fee increases from more than 800 childcare providers

Election 2024: Fine Gael leader promises more ‘interventionist’ State on child care and ‘firmer’ migration system

General election countdown: childcare is set to be a significant issue on the campaign trail

Report of Child Law Project ‘sounds the alarm’ says special rapporteur on child protection

Extra staff and improved pay sector proposed at party’s policy launch

Unless you have a reliable and obliging childminder willing to shift their schedule to accommodate the whims of Simon Harris, the election is yet another headache for parents

Giraffe Childcare operates 24 creches around Dublin, Kildare and Meath

‘Twin-track’ system would use budget surpluses to buy existing childcare businesses and build new facilities

Society considers mums suspected of working by choice to be playing a zero-sum game where career ambition comes at the cost of motherly love

Scheme would cater for 6,000 children across a range of different services intended to be representative of the current sector

Government has established a special unit to investigate what a ‘nationalised’ childcare model might look like

Budget 2025: Increases in funding for early learning and childcare ‘utterly insufficient’, say providers

Labour says budget was ‘all glitter and full of shiny gimmicks’; Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she ‘wants to see a full restoration’ of barristers fees

Record interest among readers in wide-ranging live online post-budget question and answer session

Dominic Coyle of The Irish Times and Beryl Power from PwC answered readers’ questions in our post-budget live blog which has now finished. You can read back on all the questions and answers below

The final cost of living package will now come in at just shy of €2 billion, well in excess of the €1.5bn expected

Budget 2025: Government wants Ireland ‘to be one of the best countries in the world in which to be a child’, says Minister

Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock

USC cut to 3%; extra credits for renters; 10,000 new social homes to built and free public transport for under-9s

Extension of the Help to Buy scheme to 2029, and extra tax on vulture funds expected

Judge notes ‘draconian’ law could have seen Padraig O’Connor, operator of Little Puddles Childcare in Glenageary, lose registration if convicted

National Women’s Council and 25 other organisations want pilot programme established

Newly-constructed Carrickmines facility occupies prime location just off M50 motorway

Gardaí and Tusla conducting investigations concerning reported physical, verbal and emotional abuse of toddlers

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Taoiseach signals move away from reliance on private sector care while insisting Coalition Government will last full term

Outside basic welfare payments, there are two schemes specifically focused on easing the financial burden on parents of young children

The increased cost of raising children is one of the main reasons why people are having fewer of them, says the World Economic Forum

Prosecution stemmed from inspection of Little Puddles Childcare in Glenageary two years ago

Overall, some €1.1bn of public money will go into the sector this year but not everyone is happy