Getting ready for our Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year & Tê’t celebrations 🏮🎊🪭✨🧧 #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #inclusion #ecce #ecec #preschool #diversity #lunarnewyear #chinesenewyear #tết

GARY KAVANAGH conducts a forensic examination of the finances of the NWCI and finds that 96% of its staff costs over the past 3 years have been paid for directly by grants from government departments and other publicly funded entities such as the HSE. gript.ie/an-in-depth-lo…

More comments on our petition from early years service providers. Obvious issues here that shoddy data isn’t showing. Please sign & share , no need to donate chng.it/rsfP2LVgfr ✍️

More comments from the petition. Genuinely unsure how a quality public model can arise when so many smaller services are struggling or closing due to becoming unsustainable. The biggest issue is historic & chronic underfunding 0.2% - one of the lowest in EU #itsnotrocketscience

This is it in a nutshell! No transparency. This would not happen to a male dominated profession @dcediy Jack Chambers TD Roderic O’Gorman TD Paul Donnelly TD Leo Varadkar Ted Leddy Emer Currie John Walsh Barry Andrews MEP Siobhan Shovlin Frances Fitzgerald Ellen Troy Aontú

Starting off Childhood Services Week this morning with our very excited children. This is always a week that we really enjoy. Thank you✨ National Childhood Network 🎵 💃🏻 🖼️ 🕺🏻 🎨 🎭

Great fun with National Childhood Network & Music Generation Ireland yesterday for #MusicMonday the first day of Childhood Services Week 🎵 🪇🎺🪗🎷🥁 Looking forward to seeing the children’s self portraits for #artsytuesday 👧🏼🧒🏻👧🏽🧒🏾🧒🏼👧🏻👧🏻🧑🏻‍🦰

Another great morning with National Childhood Network & the National Gallery of Ireland Thank you to the talented artist Mags for showing the children how to produce their own self portraits 🖼️✨We love our @crayola for all skin tones 🧑🏾‍🎨🧑🏼‍🎨🧑🏾‍🎨👩🏻‍🎨 #inclusion #artsytuesday

Thanks to Thomas & Odhran from @CeolConnected & National Childhood Network for another great zoom this morning. We got the 1,2,3, the hands crossed, the jump & the kick down 💃🏻✨🕺🏻👏 Then we did it again in the garden before home time ☀️ #wonderouswednesday #weliketomoveitmoveit

We loved our final zoom this morning with @ncn & Isla McGuckian 📖 🐠 💖 Children's Books Ireland Thank you, the children really enjoyed listening to Isla read April’s Garden #talesonthursday #welovebooks

We opened the Cherry Blossom Art Gallery yesterday to showcase all the lovely work from childhood Services Week. A big thank you to National Childhood Network for organising & to National Gallery of Ireland for inspiring our young friends 🖼️ 💖#ignitingjoy #ecec #ecce #preschool

Lots of chat about the warm weather over the last few days. Perfect timing for a colouring competition with pictures of how to stay safe in the sun. Such an important topic to speak to young children about ☀️🧴☂️😎👕 👒 ☀️ HSE Ireland HealthyIreland #sunsmart #staysafeinthesun☀️

“As well as managing a mammoth ministerial portfolio, he took the time to canvas with myself and other first-time candidates the length and breadth of the country”. I am honoured to have Harriet, along with Ministers, TDs, Councillors, and grassroots members from every level and

Why is nobody listening ? Closures are happening and can not be denied any longer. Parental choice is being eroded Roderic O’Gorman TD Jack Chambers TD Paul Donnelly TD Leo Varadkar Simon Harris TD

Turning the private early years businesses across Ireland into a public childcare model in the way that it is happening is wrong & disrespectful. Happening while ironically calling us “Partners”.This would not of happened to a male dominated sector Roderic O’Gorman TD Jack Chambers TD

Every parent of a child aged 11,12,13 and 14 needs to watch this. Norma Foley T.D You are a thundering disgrace that this is allowed to happen under your watch. Stop sexualizing our children, stop passing the buck and take accountability for your role as minister. #SPHE You