Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

I will be honest with the Minister - there is a crisis in care right across the State at the moment. If you look at childcare, for example, childcare units are closing on a weekly basis. Even though the people who provide childcare are professionals, they get some of the lowest wages in the State. Children in State care are in crisis at the moment. The State is putting children who are in State care into unregulated special emergency accommodation and many of those children are going missing and, according to studies that have been done by UCD, are being exposed to sexual exploitation. Nursing homes are also closing at the moment, so-----

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