Wow Minister what a spin your office has put on core funding today. You are not paying salaries your funding part of them. Your making providers out to be greedy yet again. Our fees were frozen to allow us receive EWSS. Roderic O’Gorman TD Elaine Dunne Federation Early Childhood Providers The Federation of Early Childhood Providers

Childcare Providers Fear For Their Future And Call For More Investment and so we still have fight for our rights to survive. So wrong ⁦Neale Richmond⁩ ⁦Peadar Tóibín TD⁩ ⁦Pádraig O'Sullivan TD⁩ ⁦Roderic O’Gorman TD⁩ extra.ie/2022/09/28/new…

Roderic O’Gorman TD ECCE services are closing their doors as you and your department have not addressed the capitation issue for them. We have been asking for €76 per child.This is an extra €7 a week. Offering us sustainability fund is an insult.Resolve this issue now mmcgrathtd

And still no one is listening. This is just the beginning of closures Pre-school ‘forced to close’ because of Government’s new €221m funding plan independent.ie/irish-news/edu…

Thank you Peadar Tóibín TD Aontú for inviting today to speak at your Ard Fheis on behalf of our members and the viability issues. What a great crowd and the atmosphere was fantastic. Well done to you all. The Federation of Early Childhood Providers

Ecce capitation 2010 €64.50, rate of inflation 1.64. Capitation 2022 €69 rate of inflation 9.1. I’m sorry but this is not ok. We cannot survive on this. Peadar Tóibín TD Pádraig O'Sullivan TD The Federation of Early Childhood Providers Roderic O’Gorman TD you are forcing services to close. This is so wrong

So crèches will not be given monies to help with the rising cost of heating and electricity. Yet, we must keep our buildings at a set temperature. This is not viable for many Roderic O’Gorman TD Peadar Tóibín TD The Federation of Early Childhood Providers Elaine Dunne Federation Early Childhood Providers

@MickBarryTD Wow follow@FederationEarly €10,000 per month for data centres but nothing of course for the small local preschools they meant to continue on 2010 funding levels, What's going on Roderic O’Gorman TD Kathleen Funchion SF Micheál Martin mmcgrathtd

Please can I ask all parents to sign our petition and keep our small and medium services open Parents Plus Parents & School Staff Ireland Parents for Change Cork Parents Unite @VOPIRELAND Parents TODAY Parents Twitter Parents Michael Galvin Link to Petition chng.it/8d5qpHRGfD

Roderic O’Gorman TD standing up in the dail spouting misinformation re Core funding is deplorable, 15 yrs open & funding has never improved. Spouting about PSP money after you removed it. Do u have any clue what is going on in your dept? No evidence of any investment on the ground??

Standing ankle deep in water while plugging in your electric car, this has been flooded on and off for months, yet Applegreen have done nothing about it! It needs urgent work! Eamon Ryan #applegreen

You cannot deny increase in service closures. This graph says it all Saturday with Cormac ó hEadhra This Week RTÉ this needs to be addressed urgently. Services that closed last year are still on the TUSlA register. We need to ask why ?

The apprenticeship model is the only way to help the staffing crisis in childcare. It should have been brought in long ago. Elaine Dunne Federation Early Childhood Providers The Federation of Early Childhood Providers Roderic O’Gorman TD

Crèches and ECCE services are closing and nothing is being done to help them. Further investment in childcare is urgently needed and a good apprenticeship scheme! Elaine Dunne Federation Early Childhood Providers The Federation of Early Childhood Providers Roderic O’Gorman TD Micheál Martin

The Federation of Early Childhood Providers are putting Feet on the Streets of Dublin on the 27th June. Protest outside Leinster House. Fee freezes are crippling services. Ecce services trapped and being dictated and stuck in fee freeze since 2010. So many services closing permanently. #feetonthestreets

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Minister O’Gorman and a group, none whom are childcare providers have decided to regulate our fees.Not any one of us has the same running costs, especially with inflation. Stop trying to control us, it’s not going to happen!@MurphyDunne Peadar Tóibín TD Roderic O’Gorman TD Micheál Martin

UPS you contacted us to say no one home to collect a package today was incorrect as my husband waited in all day for you. You need to speak to your driver. Not good enough and a lot of valuable time wasted by us!! #UPS_Ireland

Our sector is imploding and mark my words there will be no parental choice. ECCE services will be a thing of the past. No incentive to do extra hours when you are stuck in a historic fee freeze of €4.60 an hour because of a department policy. Or the dept interpretation or a rule

I'm on with Gareth 9.15am #GoodFriday in #Cork 96fm Opinion Line where do we go now with #RoadSafety reflecting on the tragedy in #Mayo ,rising deaths & injuries on roads, of the review of the Road Safety Authority,the need for legislation on photography at death sites etc