childcare Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Cork community will fight to “bitter end” to defend vital childcare services and jobs

By Martina Stafford A week before the Before 5 Family Centre on the Northside of Cork City was due to return after the summer break, staff and parents were informed by board members of the Centre’s immediate closure via a text message!

Sep 11, 2023

End the model of state-subsidised, private profit childcare

By Caitríona Ní Chatháin Disgracefully, the Irish State currently spends a pitiful 0.1% of its GDP on childcare. Ireland is also an outlier among wealthier countries because childcare is exclusively private and largely for-profit with state subsidies. In spite of these subsidies

Jun 12, 2022

Covid-19 Pandemic

Covid-19: Childcare facilities close with workers left in distress

Across the state, workers are being thrown into turmoil by the Coronavirus emergency as companies announce closures and layoffs. For more than 25,000 childcare workers, there is huge uncertainty as all childcare facilities across the state have been closed. This was obviously

Mar 17, 2020

Childcare crisis reaches point of collapse- Fund free public childcare now

By Katia Hancke Childcare services have reached breaking point due to the callous insistence of this government to treat the care of our children as a for-profit business. Childcare workers and small providers, with the support of many parents, have been driven

Jan 9, 2020

News & Analysis

‘Budget of Omission’ as key crises in housing, education & health ignored.

• Workers must not be made pay for Brexit – deferral of minimum wage must be opposed. • Carbon tax won’t deliver climate action & will increase fuel poverty Brexit Bailout Speaking on behalf of Solidarity and the Socialist Party, Mick Barry

Oct 8, 2019

Vote 1 Rita Harrold: A Socialist Feminist Voice for Workers, Women & the Planet

This is the text of Rita Harrold’s leaflet for the European election campaign in Dublin that will be distributed to 250,000 homes in Dublin. Let Us Rise!– Public Need Not Private Greed “The water charges and repeal movements show things can change.

May 3, 2019

News & Analysis

Outrageous and astronomical costs- Free public childcare now!

By Katia Hancke Every parent of young children in Ireland already knows it, but official reports once again confirm that childcare costs in Ireland are astronomical. They are crippling middle and low-income families. As a percentage of income, childcare costs in Ireland

May 2, 2019

Euro elections: Vote no.1 Rita Harrold

From the housing crisis, to the cervical cancer scandal, to climate change – capitalism’s profit motive clashes with the needs of the majority. I’m Rita Harrold a 29 year old childminder from Crumlin & a longstanding Socialist Party activist. I’ve been involved

Apr 25, 2019

News & Analysis

End the burden of childcare costs

By Adrienne Harvey Fears that the Government’s More Affordable Childcare Scheme would increase the financial burden on parents have been realised. The subsidy of up to €80 per month was intended to help parents cope with rising childcare costs. However, some parents

Sep 13, 2017

Homelessness, inequality, childcare… Why capitalism isn’t delivering?

By Kevin McLoughlin SUPPLY AND demand in the “free market” is supposedly the best way to produce what we need.“Free market” are just sanitised words for capitalism – production for profit. The pursuit of profit inevitably leads to economic inequality and as

Sep 10, 2017

childcare

Cork community will fight to “bitter end” to defend vital childcare services and jobs

End the model of state-subsidised, private profit childcare

Covid-19: Childcare facilities close with workers left in distress

Childcare crisis reaches point of collapse- Fund free public childcare now

‘Budget of Omission’ as key crises in housing, education & health ignored.

Vote 1 Rita Harrold: A Socialist Feminist Voice for Workers, Women & the Planet

Outrageous and astronomical costs- Free public childcare now!

Euro elections: Vote no.1 Rita Harrold

End the burden of childcare costs

Homelessness, inequality, childcare… Why capitalism isn’t delivering?

Socialist Alternative – Marxist journal of Solidarity

Divide & Rule pamphlet by Peter Hadden