Dublin is ‘starved of childcare resources’

THE Government is starving Dublin of the resources the city needs to provide quality, affordable childcare, Fine Gael has claimed.

The party carried out a detailed examination of the Department of Justice’s Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme (EOCP), comparing the funding each county receives with the number of children aged under four living there.

Dublin comes almost bottom of the league, despite the fact that childcare in the capital is more expensive than anywhere else in the country.