Childcare Services Dail Éireann — 2025-06-17 ============================================================ Barry Ward (FG), Dún Laoghaire I am sure the Minister campaigned, as I did, on the issue of childcare during the election campaign. It has remained a live issue since. We are committed to reducing that cost gradually. It is a commitment in the programme for Government. Will the Minister update us on the progress on that policy? --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2025-06-17/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:53:55+00:00 Sitting date: 2025-06-17