{"id":809,"date":"2019-09-19T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T09:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/fine-gael-is-failing-families-over-childcare-and-homecare\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:51:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T09:51:15","slug":"fine-gael-is-failing-families-over-childcare-and-homecare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/fine-gael-is-failing-families-over-childcare-and-homecare\/","title":{"rendered":"Fine Gael is failing families over childcare and homecare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Social Democrats today accused Fine Gael of failing families as new research shows that Ireland ranks among the worst in Europe for meeting people\u2019s childcare and homecare support needs.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s Spokesperson for Children, Wicklow Cllr Jennifer Whitmore said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIreland\u2019s appalling poor ranking in today\u2019s ESRI study shows the utter emptiness of the Taoiseach\u2019s recent claim that Fine Gael wants a better deal for families. The stark reality is that Ireland has the fourth highest level of unmet need for childcare out of eleven countries surveyed. Appallingly, 25 per cent of lone-parent families in Ireland reported an unmet need for childcare, compared to only 8 per cent in Denmark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is clear that for many families, cost is a significant barrier to accessing childcare and this has an impact on mothers\u2019 employment in particular. This government appears content to preside over a situation where there are more than 100,000 children living in consistent poverty and one third of parents are going into debt just to be able to send their children back to school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOne of the Social Democrat\u2019s priorities is to set a national target to end consistent child poverty. It is eminently achievable and shocking that we don&#8217;t have it as one of our national aims. Such a strategy would entail ensuring that children have full access to health care, to genuinely free primary and secondary education, and an end to the scandal of child homelessness.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cThe ESRI report also found that people in Ireland were four times less likely than Swedish households to have their homecare needs met while just four out of ten Irish people over 65 in need of help received support, compared to 80 per cent of older people in Denmark.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\u201cAccess to home care services urgently needs to be improved. Our homecare supports need to move away from the demand-led model that clearly hasn&#8217;t worked and to replace it with a statutory scheme.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>ENDS<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>19th September 2019<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Democrats today accused Fine Gael of failing families as new research shows that Ireland ranks among the worst in Europe for meeting people\u2019s childcare and homecare support needs. 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