Questions remain about how the government failed to provide a childcare scheme. Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie Questions remain about how the government failed to provide a childcare scheme. Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie NINE WEEKS AGO, the government announced that all schools would close in a bid to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak. Today, the government is facing criticism after it admitted that a much-heralded childcare scheme for healthcare workers has been scrapped.
“Our creche asked us to continue paying so that they could keep paying their staff. We are happy to do that for the two weeks that have been announced but we’re really worried about what happens next,” the parent said. But progress was slow. On 25 March, the government announced new measures that would see parents not having to pay their provider for childcare they’re not receiving, but no comprehensive scheme for healthcare workers had yet materialised.
He said they needed to make sure whatever new plan put in place did not in itself become a public health risk or allow the virus to be spread. The sticking point, he seemed to indicate, was anxiety from NPHET about the prospect of childminders going en masse into people’s homes to care for children. Still, a solution was promised soon.
Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan also sought to clarify the suggestion that he had “concerns” about childcare workers going into the homes of healthcare workers.“It’s conditional on the preparations that are happening intensively at the moment within the HSE to build the sampling, testing and contact tracing capacity so we can have sufficient assurance we can pick up new cases in an environment where we’re easing restrictions,” he said.
Families would have to pay €90 per week for a childcare worker to look after children in the home, but the majority of the cost will be paid by the State, the minister said.Zappone said the cost of the scheme would be €4.7 million per week. A letter from insurance broker Arachas has said that “it is our duty as your insurance advisor to highlight to you that under the current framework outlined by your Insurer, Allianz, and by the Government Departments, that you will not have insurance cover for any claim relating to Covid-19″.
Because the people involved in setting it up are so far out of touch with the real world it's embarrassing
This is what you get when politicians are more concerned about their popularity. A populist decision with no thought.
Thank ourselves lucky, their fuck ups usually cost us 000s of 0000000s 🙄
FineGael Simples
It went wrong because there was no proper engagement with providers or workers to address concerns and deal with them.
Bring strangers into their homes to mind their kids but yet won't let family members look after their kids
We should be on the streets,letting them know that they are the few and we are the many,the collective mindset on Ireland ousted these but the slime back in,they have no allegiance to our country unless it involves gay rights and green taxes
Probably because leo,Simon,and Simon were involved,when have they got it right,while I’m on the subject why the fuck is the democratic vote by the Irish to get rid of these clowns not been enforced,they will lead us down the wrong road
Roll on tomorrow. A certain person will be on TV telling us 'we're compliant'. Pity he doesn't do TV with the bad news and failed schemes
Fine Gael
Zappone is hopeless
Simple really they never got input from the childcare workers, doesn't matter if they talked to childcare owners it's the staff that have to decide if they were willing to risk themselves and their families. Went against advice of social distancing so doomed from start
Answer. Incompetent leaders
The minister has not got a clue quite frankly
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