# Childcare
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This month
April 2024
THE MORNING LEAD
Your stories: The stress, strain and heartbreak of trying to find childcare in Ireland
“Our unborn child is on a waiting list for two creches and four childminders – yes, a waiting list. No place is confirmed.”
Lauren Boland
6 Apr
12.5k
your stories
Are you struggling to source affordable childcare? We want to hear your stories
2 Apr
9.2k
Last year
2023
Voices
Opinion: The budget gave us baby steps forward when a giant leap for young children was needed
Frances Byrne
12 Oct 2023
7.0k
32
budget 2024
'Many families' paying higher fees will not see 25% cut to childcare costs
11 Oct 2023
18.3k
10
budget 2024
A cut of twenty-five per cent in average creche costs announced for September 2024
10 Oct 2023
14.6k
8
THE MORNING LEAD
'I am broken mentally, physically and financially': What readers want to see in Budget 2024
8 Oct 2023
59.2k
123
budget 2024
Finance Minister: 'People can be optimistic that their living standards are about to improve'
Updated
7 Oct 2023
25.3k
97
budget 2024
Further doubt cast over 25% childcare cost cut as Tánaiste fails to say if Govt will honour promise
5 Oct 2023
10.1k
25
budget 2024
O'Gorman to push hard for significant childcare fee cuts in meeting with Donohoe tomorrow
3 Oct 2023
12.5k
7
growing costs
O'Gorman doubles down on need for fee freeze as childcare providers protest at Leinster House
Updated
26 Sep 2023
23.8k
46
accommodation crisis
Minister says Govt 'under real pressure' to accommodate refugees in coming months
14 Sep 2023
11.6k
budget 2024
Tax package, energy and business supports to form part of October's giveaway budget
26 Jul 2023
20.3k
56
UK Budget
'Brexit pubs guarantee' and free childcare, what was in the UK's Budget?
15 Mar 2023
19.9k
6
gfa 25
Events to mark Good Friday Agreement anniversary planned amid speculation over Biden visit
31 Jan 2023
13.4k
6
Childcare
Families in the North more reliant on friends and family for childcare than those in the Republic
30 Jan 2023
6.7k
0
All time
Childcare
Strike action by childcare providers tomorrow cancelled as meeting with Minister planned
Updated
24 Nov 2022
7.2k
0
Protest
Childcare providers to strike over 'inadequately addressed' funding issues
11 Nov 2022
10.8k
8
budget 2023
Minister hopes parents using childminders will benefit from cheaper childcare next year
Updated
28 Sep 2022
20.6k
29
budget 2023
Childcare: Reduction of up to 25% announced in costs under National Childcare Scheme
Updated
27 Sep 2022
14.9k
2
Voices
Opinion: The new childcare ‘Core Funding’ is positive news but more is needed in the budget
Regina Bushell
Updated
22 Sep 2022
12.7k
7
Voices
Opinion: No one told me that childcare is the true engine of creative work
Erin Fornoff
17 Sep 2022
15.0k
1
together for better
New funding model for childcare will freeze this year's fees at 2021 rates
15 Sep 2022
8.7k
5
Labour Think-In
Bacik says Ireland should copy Germany's €9 monthly public transport fare initiative
8 Sep 2022
17.4k
42
Childcare
Childcare fees should fall by 50% over the next two Budgets, says minister
25 Aug 2022
22.9k
21
THE MORNING LEAD
Childcare fees will fall for the vast majority of parents under 'big' Budget package
20 Aug 2022
30.7k
26
Gender Equality
Sinn Féin tables proposals to cut cost of childcare by two thirds
7 Jul 2022
16.0k
67
Childcare
Creches say planned fee freeze for childcare costs in September 'unworkable'
21 Jun 2022
14.6k
8
Government's 'objective' to cut childcare costs before Christmas - Taoiseach
Updated
20 Jun 2022
26.4k
46
Cost of Living
Housing is government's 'biggest failure', Social Democrats say at national conference
Updated
11 Jun 2022
25.5k
40
cost of childcare
Parents paying nearly €800 in monthly fees per child in childcare, report finds
13 May 2022
20.9k
35
capping fees
Government to reduce childcare costs 'considerably' in the next Budget
24 Apr 2022
63.5k
63
Inflation
Living wage proposals to be brought to Government before summer, says Varadkar
12 Apr 2022
21.8k
24
Childcare
The Explainer x Noteworthy: What can be done to improve childcare in Ireland?
15 Feb 2022
3.4k
0
Childcare Crossroads
Would it work here? The countries finding success in key aspects of childcare
3 Feb 2022
9.4k
9
THE MORNING LEAD
Increased State spend on childcare 'not enough' to solve crisis for parents and providers
3 Feb 2022
17.5k
11