A report on low pay levels and working conditions in the childcare sector is to be given to the Department of Children in the coming days, the minister has said.
Roderic O’Gorman, the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, said the report will outline the issues and solutions to pay and conditions for workers in the sector.
The department appointed former Labour Court chairman and barrister Dr Kevin Duffy to be the independent chairman of the process.
“In December, 2020, working in partnership with (unions) Siptu, Childhood Services Ireland and Ibec, I began a short process in which interested parties were invited to discuss how best to address issues of pay and conditions in the sector, and how a joint labour committee might support this,” Mr O’Gorman told the Dail.