Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

I have a few specific questions, so we might do this in the form of question and answer, question and answer, etc.

My first question is on childcare workers in the informal sector. It is estimated that there are approximately 35,000 non-crèche childminders, many of whom work out of their own homes or the homes of the children they are minding. They are not well paid, but unless they had another job in the formal economy, they have not been able to access the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP. They are low-paid workers, and that income has now been taken away from them. Does the Minister agree that we need to find a way for them to access State supports, for example, the PUP?

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