Siptu says the Government has given enough money to the sector to allow the minimum wage to rise from €13 to €15
A parliamentary question from Sinn Féin childcare spokeswoman Kathleen Funchion last week revealed that the cost of moving all employees on €13 an hour to €15 an hour would be €51 million a year. The estimated cost to employers of raising all the pay grades in the sector by €2 an hour would be €92 million.
He suggested there was plenty of money in the system to increase pay without having to raise fees for hard-pressed parents as the Government gave the sector an additional €207 million last year. Mr Varadkar said the Government had effectively cut the cost of childcare by 25 per cent in the last budget, but he cast doubt on being able to cut it by the same amount in the next budget.
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