Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-05-20
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Anne Rabbitte (FF), Galway East

I will now move to the impact of Covid-19 on childcare more generally. Under the Government's plan to reopen Ireland, more workers will return to their places of work and this will create enormous pressures on the childcare sector. The roadmap provides for phases 3 and 4.
On the last day the Minister was in the Dáil, I asked her what is an essential worker. Will she tell me today what is an essential worker, please?

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Sitting date: 2020-05-20