Crippling costs of housing and childcare having knock-on effects

Having a family and a roof over your head are the basic needs of human life that are now denied to so many people

Childcare and early years education investment is needed if we are to be a successful country.

With regard to the article — ‘‘We are just so tired’: Parents reveal endless struggle to find and pay for childcare’ ( Irish Examiner, September 13).

Is anything ever going to change here? It is increasingly difficult or near impossible for working people to just survive, let alone have any quality of life/standard of living here.