Geraldine Herbert (@gerherbert.bsky.social)

“I started looking at 12 weeks pregnant — the waitlist was two years.” Childcare in Ireland is unaffordable, unavailable, and unsustainable. My piece on the real cost of childcare in Ireland @independent.ie #ChildcareCrisis #WorkingParents #EarlyYears www.independent.ie/business/mon...?

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‘I started looking when I was three months’ pregnant and was told there’s a two-year waiting list’ – counting the true cost of childcare For parents like Aoife Whelan, a mother-of-two living in Sallins, Co Kildare, Ireland’s childcare crisis begins before their child is even born. “I had to take a full year off for my first baby, as th... https://www.independent.ie/business/money/i-started-looking-when-i-was-three-months-pregnant-and-was-told-theres-a-two-year-waiting-list-counting-the-true-cost-of-childcare/a1839753936.html