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Intent: Communicate the challenges facing providers with the current fee management system associated with core funding and its negative impacts on the provision of childcare.
Details: Core Funding, Fee Caps and Fee Management
Intent: Communicate the issues facing providers and the challenges facing the sector.
Details: Issues affecting providers
Intent: Support for improvements for the workforce, increased investment, proper capacity planning and better use of data
Details: Early Years and School Age Care matters including workforce, investment and access issues
Intent: Highlight the challenges experienced by providers with the current Garda Vetting arrangements in order to alleviate those challenges if possible
Details: Garda Vetting Challenges experienced by providers
Intent: Raise awareness of the challenges with the new compliance reporting requirements and seek an amendment of the requirements.
Details: Core funding compliance measures
Intent: Disseminate a new research paper on the MESL needs of school age children, highlighting the additional costs associated with children aged 12 and over::Informing that new MESL research website is live, and updating links to research reports, publications, data, etc.::Announcing the availability of the new MESL calculator, which demonstrates the gap between current social welfare supports and households minimum expenditure needs.
Details: Informing of new MESL research publications
Intent: To inform that the MESL analysis of the impact of Budget 2026 was published.To provide evidence based forecast of adequacy of social welfare rates, National Minimum Wage and in-work supports in 2026.
Details: Distribution of Budget 2026 MESL Impact Briefing
Intent: Support for Early Childhood Ireland's proposal for pay parity between Early Years graduates and primary teachers.
Details: Budget 2026
Intent: Raise awareness of the challenges facing providers in the childcare sector and highlight potential solutions to those challenges
Details: Issues affecting providers
Intent: To have some of CSI's budget asks reflected in the 2026 budget.
Details: CSI's Budget Submission
