Government slow to address childcare
Parents are burdened by a lack of state investment in childcare – but pressure is building for a change in this year’s budget
On the subject of childcare, Europe and Ireland have been in something of an arm-wrestle lately.
When Ireland was exiting the troika programme, childcare was named as one of seven specific issues that the government needed to address in 2014 and 2015 in order to encourage more women into the labour force.
In February of this year, an EU report found that “limited progress has been made in tackling the ...
