Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

Obviously, though, increasing our labour force makes sense across the island as does removing the barriers and restrictions in this regard to offer mobility to workers and opportunities for students to study across the island. Investment in education is not going to impact inflation, so investment in our human capital is, therefore, very important. Moving to the point on the number of workers working part-time hours, this situation would point to many workers not being able to do extra hours because they cannot afford to lose a medical card or other essential supports they might need to be able to live. I refer as well to women and families in terms of childcare and going back to participate in the workforce. Investment in childcare there is important.