Lorraine Clifford Lee (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The issue of childcare is very real. We do not need a Citizens' Assembly to dissect it. We know it is a problem and we can see the solutions but will this Government realistically provide for gender equality by addressing the childcare issue? It locks a huge number of women out of the economic workforce and the women I talk to who are caring for their children in the home are there reluctantly and it is because they have been locked out of the workforce by the high cost of childcare. Will this Government continue to just pay lip-service to the gender equality issue or will it realistically tackle childcare?