With more people slowly returning to work, Labour’s Seán Sherlock and his party colleague Dungarvan Lismore councillor and Mayor of Waterford Cllr John Pratt, have stated this week that a cast iron guarantee was needed that childcare for essential workers would return on June 29 as the Government has promised, as concerns in the sector grow.
It comes as Deputy Sherlock raised the matter directly with the Minister in the Dáil last week, but reports early this week indicated that most operators would not reopen.
Deputy Sherlock, Labour’s Children and Youth Affairs spokesperson, said: “The Irish Examiner today reports that 9 out of 10 childcare owners will not reopen at the end of June. That will be a disaster for working parents, and we still have no details of how the pod system will work.
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