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Childcare Costs

This month
April 2025
election pledges
'Won't happen overnight': Foley says introducing €200 monthly childcare will be 'long journey'
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael both committed in last year’s election to reduce the monthly cost of childcare to €200 per child.
Jane Matthews
3 Apr
27.7k
44
Last year
2024
Election Promises
Labour joins FG and SF in pledging €200 per month childcare (and say it was their idea first)
31 Oct 2024
7.1k
60
The Morning Lead
One Galway creche explains why it’s closing its doors despite childcare funding increases
Meanwhile, another Galway creche explained why it has left the government’s funding contract to go it alone and hike its fees.
Sheena Kenny closed the doors of her creche this week, labelling the Early Childhood Care and Education "death by a thousand cuts".
It brought increased paperwork and Kenny had to largely stop working directly with the children herself, instead spending her days in the office.
An increase in fees to cover running costs meant parents started putting their child in other larger, cheaper creches, which she couldn't compete with.
Mairead Maguire
31 Aug 2024
31.5k
3
National Childcare Scheme
Two years of childcare should be legal right says Minister as subsidies to kick in Monday
Updated 29 Aug 2024
32.3k
42
All time
budget 2024
'Many families' paying higher fees will not see 25% cut to childcare costs
11 Oct 2023
19.1k
10
Childcare Costs
Increased childcare subsidies to take effect from today
Updated 3 Jan 2023
15.8k
4
The Daily Poll
Poll: Have you benefited from Budget 2023?
3 Jan 2023
26.9k
36
Childcare
Creches say planned fee freeze for childcare costs in September 'unworkable'
21 Jun 2022
14.6k
8
capping fees
Government to reduce childcare costs 'considerably' in the next Budget
24 Apr 2022
63.5k
63
The Morning Lead
'Financially, I'm in a pickle': Your stories of coping with the cost-of-living squeeze
13 Feb 2022
80.8k
82
Childcare Costs
Unicef: Ireland one of the most expensive countries for childcare as half of salary is average cost
18 Jun 2021
16.4k
27
Childcare Costs
Opinion: We don’t want the crumbs from the table – childcare is in crisis and we need support
Margaret Connell
4 Feb 2020
13.7k
19
Insurance
Explainer: Why are hundreds of creche owners worried about having to close?
19 Dec 2019
13.9k
crèche costs
Childcare costs up 5.5% nationwide: Here's a county-by-county breakdown
19 Aug 2018
24.4k
36
Childcare Costs
Social Protection Minister rules out means testing child benefit payment
5 Jun 2018
15.6k
151
Childcare
Childcare payments may differ from county to county after creche fee audit
4 Aug 2017
13.4k
5
Childcare
Children do better when minded by relatives and childminders rather than full-time parents, says ESRI
2 Nov 2016
25.1k
37
struggling to get by
'The sector is in real crisis': New report reveals the cost of providing childcare
29 Sep 2016
13.4k
25
Workforce
Open Thread: Is the cost of childcare preventing you from working?
16 Apr 2015
14.1k
82
Childcare Costs
Varadkar: 'Childcare tax breaks for parents not being ruled out'
16 Feb 2015
9.9k
57
Childcare
Column: Why am I working purely to keep my foot in the door?
Claire Micks
24 Jan 2015
379
83
childhood education
Opinion: We can't afford NOT to invest in childcare and early education
Ciaran Tierney
14 Jul 2014
185
25
Childcare
500 subsidised childcare places come online
24 Apr 2013
12.4k
59
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Good morning… here’s nine stories to catch up on.
7 Aug 2012
6.6k
4
Opinion
Column: The Dept of Finance is either unable - or unwilling - to fix childcare
Stephen Donnelly
19 Jul 2012
109
44
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: The HSE offers its sympathy to the family of a woman who died shortly after giving birth to a healthy daughter; tornadoes and storms ravage the US; the super-injunction celebrities named.
28 Apr 2011
4.2k
1
Childcare
Childcare costs differ by 50 per cent in parts of the country
11 Feb 2011
1.4k
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Investigation launched into Cork air crash; another day of protests dawns in Egypt, and a teenage girl collapses and dies minutes after she is kissed for the first time.
11 Feb 2011
2.6k
Childcare Costs
Irish childcare costs highest in Western World
23 Aug 2010
1.3k
6
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