Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----but, when we look at delivery, the Government again falls short. Key to supporting families is the availability of affordable childcare. Sinn Féin has shown how childcare could be delivered at €10 a day. That would have been a game-changer for families but the Government would not go there. This could be delivered next year for all parents in centre-based childcare and Tusla-based child measures and then rolled out to all other childminders. We now see that all the Government's talk about supporting parents is just talk. There is no further reduction in the cost of childcare planned for next year. That is a fact. There is a lot of spin coming from Mr. Soundbite but, when it comes to substance, we see that childcare costs will not be reduced.

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