Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Currently, 13,000 Ukrainians who have come here seeking refuge are working and contributing to making Irish society a better place, which is what most immigrants want to do. There is a very significant obstacle for Ukrainians in particular in that many of them are single parents - women with children - and there is no childcare is available for them. We already have a problem here in this regard. What measures are being taken to expand childcare provision for people here who need it and also for refugees coming here who want to work, contribute to Irish society and assist us in dealing with the many labour shortages we have in areas such as healthcare, construction, retail, hospitality and so on, but are being prevented from doing so by the lack of childcare? What other measures are being taken more generally to facilitate people in the international protection accommodation services, IPAS, system and elsewhere who would like to work? It is often made very difficult for them to work and to integrate into the workforce.

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