Politics

Childcare providers ask O’Gorman for emergency funding ‘to pay the staff’

Smaller childcare services say the current funding rates, which favour larger providers, are ‘killing’ them

Roderic O'Gorman, Minister for Children: a spokesman for O’Gorman said there would be an independent funding review of a sample of smaller providers due to the concerns they had expressed. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos