Budget 2017: Katherine Zappone admits it will be a challenge to keep costs down

Keeping childcare costs down will be a challenge when a range of subsidies are introduced next September, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Katherine Zappone, said last night.

Dr Zappone was asked if she was confident there were enough measures in her new affordable childcare scheme to ensure childcare would not become even more expensive.

“We are aware that that will be a challenge but in order to address that we are going to be implementing an independent study examining the cost of childcare,” she said.