Government should shoulder payroll costs in childcare sector, Oireachtas committee told

Children’s Rights Alliance CEO Tanya Ward told TDs and Senators on the Oireachtas Children’s Committee that the younger a child is when they come into contact with violent pornography, the more damaging it is. File picture: Karl Hussey/ Naoise Culhane Photography

The Government should take on the payroll costs of childcare providers and make early years educators public sector workers as part of essential reform to the system, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Children’s Rights Alliance CEO Tanya Ward told TDs and Senators on the Oireachtas Children’s Committee that it could be a “groundbreaking move”.