Childcare bills will see a significant reduction from next week, according to Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman.
This comes as a result of ministers agreeing to slash fees by 25 per cent as part of Budget 2023 from significant increases in taxpayer funding of childcare. The cut will be welcomed by overwhelmed families facing soaring heating bills and cost-of-living increases on top of Christmas-related expenses.
“It’s not promises,” Minister O’Gorman told the Irish Independent. “It’s real delivery, the biggest cut in childcare fees in the history of the State. I’ve secured the largest increase in one-year investment in childcare in the history of the State. That subsidy will come off everyone’s bills. Now some people’s bills are higher and lower. So what we’re saying is it will be an average (cut) across the country (of) 25 per cent.”
