Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
9:30 am
Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
If parents are paying a mortgage of €900 a month and their childcare is €1,600, there is nothing within a 30-minute drive of their home and very few crèches are taking children under one, what option have parents got? How will this new plan reduce - not freeze - those astronomical costs? Can Mr. McCarthy give me concrete detail on how a parent who is looking to get their child under one into a crèche come September will fare? What is being done about that?
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