External reviews of delivery of nine babies come in wake of inquiry set up in 2015 around transfer of four newborns to Dublin for neonatal cooling the previous year, a baby’s death and other ‘significant concern’ cases
Inspection at Crumlin Childcare Centre found children in cold and dirty conditions
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Department of Justice will incorporate home affairs and migration
Dublin Chamber of Commerce has warned that the high cost of childcare has damaged the ability of companies to recruit staff and is driving employees, especially women, out of the workforce
9 in 10 businesses said the childcare crisis limited their ability to recruit and retain staff
Agency cut ties with company used to supervise access visits between parents and children in care
Lack of affordable, accessible, quality childcare means women are often forced into part-time, more precarious work
Ivana Bacik communicates decision to leaders of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael
Judge places two boys in interim care of Tusla but says the agency had ‘serious and fundamental questions’ to answer
UK-headquartered group behind Giraffe Childcare and Park Academy blames ‘minor technical discrepancy’ for removal of Giraffe accounts from CRO
Election 2024: Sinn Féin TD Paul Donnelly should be returned, but it might be a big ask for the party to take two seats
Dividing lines emerge as parties outline their general election pledges
Roderic O’Gorman said his party ‘with 12 TDs has been able to deliver more’ than Labour with 37
Paschal Donohoe accuses party of ‘raid’ – but Pearse Doherty says party would add more money to future funds
Election 2024: Social Democrats pledges €1 offpeak public transport fares and 50,000 affordable purchase homes if in government
Simon Harris’s party has promised €7bn-worth of tax cuts, €2.5bn pension increases and a range of public sector spending
Despite the best of intentions and some strong ideas, Goodhart seems to underestimate the extent to which he pushes readers’ buttons
Minna Murphy is happy to see early education becoming a ‘political hot potato’ in the run-up to the election with just about everybody promising more money.
All main political parties have committed to capping fees charged to parents, with most saying €200 per child would be the most any family would have to pay
Mother of girl says her child’s arm was twisted several times and former staff member asked child not to tell anybody
Like other parties, Fine Gael has also pledged that parents will pay no more than €200 per month per child
Fine Gael is expected to pledge to cut inheritance tax substantially when it unveils its manifesto at the weekend
Department of Children has received applications for fee increases from more than 800 childcare providers
Election 2024: Fine Gael leader promises more ‘interventionist’ State on child care and ‘firmer’ migration system
General election countdown: childcare is set to be a significant issue on the campaign trail
Report of Child Law Project ‘sounds the alarm’ says special rapporteur on child protection
Extra staff and improved pay sector proposed at party’s policy launch
Unless you have a reliable and obliging childminder willing to shift their schedule to accommodate the whims of Simon Harris, the election is yet another headache for parents
Giraffe Childcare operates 24 creches around Dublin, Kildare and Meath
‘Twin-track’ system would use budget surpluses to buy existing childcare businesses and build new facilities
Society considers mums suspected of working by choice to be playing a zero-sum game where career ambition comes at the cost of motherly love
Scheme would cater for 6,000 children across a range of different services intended to be representative of the current sector
Government has established a special unit to investigate what a ‘nationalised’ childcare model might look like
Budget 2025: Increases in funding for early learning and childcare ‘utterly insufficient’, say providers
Labour says budget was ‘all glitter and full of shiny gimmicks’; Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she ‘wants to see a full restoration’ of barristers fees
Record interest among readers in wide-ranging live online post-budget question and answer session
Dominic Coyle of The Irish Times and Beryl Power from PwC answered readers’ questions in our post-budget live blog which has now finished. You can read back on all the questions and answers below
The final cost of living package will now come in at just shy of €2 billion, well in excess of the €1.5bn expected
Budget 2025: Government wants Ireland ‘to be one of the best countries in the world in which to be a child’, says Minister
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
USC cut to 3%; extra credits for renters; 10,000 new social homes to built and free public transport for under-9s
Extension of the Help to Buy scheme to 2029, and extra tax on vulture funds expected
Judge notes ‘draconian’ law could have seen Padraig O’Connor, operator of Little Puddles Childcare in Glenageary, lose registration if convicted
National Women’s Council and 25 other organisations want pilot programme established
Newly-constructed Carrickmines facility occupies prime location just off M50 motorway
Gardaí and Tusla conducting investigations concerning reported physical, verbal and emotional abuse of toddlers
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Taoiseach signals move away from reliance on private sector care while insisting Coalition Government will last full term
Outside basic welfare payments, there are two schemes specifically focused on easing the financial burden on parents of young children
The increased cost of raising children is one of the main reasons why people are having fewer of them, says the World Economic Forum
Prosecution stemmed from inspection of Little Puddles Childcare in Glenageary two years ago
Overall, some €1.1bn of public money will go into the sector this year but not everyone is happy
Costs down by around 50 per cent for average parent through various programmes now introduced, Minister says
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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