Taoiseach accused of adopting a ‘let-them-eat-cake’ approach to childcare providers who warn they may have to close due to inadequate funding, excessive regulation and heavy-handed bureaucracy
of Aontú, who went outside earlier to address the protesters, accused O’Gorman of “literally destroying” the childcare sector and also called for his resignation.
The Taoiseach robustly defended his Minister for Children in the face of strong criticism led off during Leaders’ Questions by Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald, who called for greater public investment in childcare services and fair pay for the professionals – mostly women – working in the area.Leo Varadkar didn’t see investing more than €1bn as tinkering.
Owners of small creches who didn’t attend the demo and parents struggling to pay fees – “the equivalent of a second mortgage” as Mary Lou put it –,would not share his opinion. Labour leader Ivana Bacik raised another aspect of the “care crisis” in support of those workers who provide essential services on the State’s behalf by “providing a lifeline to Ireland’s most vulnerable communities”.
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