Norma Foley
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Oct 4, 2026
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
So the Sunday Times is dealing with budget battle to cut childcare costs by 200 euros.
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
They're saying cabinet colleagues expect Norma Foley to be one of the big winners from the budget and there's other bits and pieces of budgety stuff there too.
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
We'll get a rundown of it all, everything we know in a minute.
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
The Sunday Independent Has coalition ups tax break for rent-a-room scheme and budget boost? So now it's going up to 16,000.
Valerie CoxGUEST
At the end of the day, you look in your pocket and you think, "Well, gosh, I'm not, no better off than I actually was." But in the case of childcare, childcare is apparently costing an average of 650 a month for a child to be minded.
Valerie CoxGUEST
Now, the minister, the Children's Minister, Norma Foley, is trying to bring that down by about 200, but the debate at the moment, which they're going to decide on tonight, is which children this will refer to.
Ciara DohertyHOST
Mm.
Valerie CoxGUEST
Will it be the under fives, under sixes? Which is really the most expensive stage, because if you're talking about teenagers, you know, they can mind themselves to some extent, but the babies can't.
John McGuirkHOST
Who's the Minister for Children? It's Norma fucking Foley.
John McGuirkHOST
Now, if you do a Google search for Norma Foley, you'll find Norma Foley opens this in Donegal.
John McGuirkHOST
Norma Foley awards grant here.
John McGuirkHOST
Norma Foley is in this part of the country.
John McGuirkHOST
She is responsible for TUSLA, which has a budget of €1.47 billion every year.
John McGuirkHOST
It's one of the single biggest line items in the budget.
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John McGuirkHOST
But this actually, the responsibility for this goes right to the top.
John McGuirkHOST
Like what I would say to Micheál Martin I mean, which is one of the reasons he would never do an interview on this podcast because this is a question I'd ask him.
Paul HosfordGUEST
Childcare is a, is another.
Paul HosfordGUEST
How that's going to be done, Norma Foley has said that she wants to make significant inroads into the cost o- of childcare, the average monthly cost.
Paul HosfordGUEST
That will likely be seeing an increase in the national childcare, uh, subsidy scheme, which has been used to bring down childcare costs in the past.
Paul HosfordGUEST
What that looks like, um, how that's administered, who that applies to, all of that still has to be agreed on, and that's, you know, these are, these are, you know, you're talking the quantum of, uh, hundreds of millions, or in the case of Social Protection, billions, uh, a- added to current spending.
Aisling MoloneyGUEST
So I think that that's actually been one of the most cloak and dagger measures in this budget.
Aisling MoloneyGUEST
And I'm sure there are frank and robust and as much the Minister for Children, Norma Foley, said that she's had very frank discussions about about what she wants around this with the Minister for Public Expenditure, Jack Chambers.
Aisling MoloneyGUEST
And it will be seen as, you know, it could be a massive win for them, but they could also have, it could be a huge loss, essentially, if they don't push it far enough.
Aisling MoloneyGUEST
And they've, you know, it's been talked about a lot, so people are expecting a lot.
speaker_0HOST
I, I spoke about this a few days ago, that there has to be an overspend because we're completely underfunded.
speaker_0HOST
We also had Norma Foley's reign of freebies.
speaker_0HOST
We also have a structural system which makes everything much more expensive than it needs to be.
speaker_0HOST
And I say it all comes down to patronage.
Christina FinnPANELIST
The big thing I think people will be lo- looking for as well is childcare.
Christina FinnPANELIST
Been well flagged by, um, Norma Foley and from Simon Harris that this is going to be kind of a big pillar in this year's budget.
Christina FinnPANELIST
Again, big promises being made.
Christina FinnPANELIST
You know, the election promise was getting people to the €200 mark.
Shane ColmanHOST
With Keira.
Shane ColmanHOST
Now, the locations of seven proposed new early learning and childcare projects were announced today by the Minister for Children, Norma Foley.
Shane ColmanHOST
Across the seven proposed locations, there's potential to provide around 600 places to support the Department of Children's policy of improving access to high-quality, affordable early learning and childcare.
Shane ColmanHOST
We're joined now by the Children's Minister, Norma Foley.
Shane ColmanHOST
Minister, just explain to us what exactly you announced today.
Norma FoleyGUEST
Thanks very much.
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Norma FoleyGUEST
And I would hope that, you know, sense would prevail.
Norma FoleyGUEST
And, you know, we would take the opportunity for discussion.
Elaine LoughlinGUEST
The government has committed in the programme for government to bringing down the cost of childcare to €200 per child per month.
Elaine LoughlinGUEST
Now, Children's Minister Norma Foley has said just this week that she wants to make significant inroads in achieving that promise through the National Child Care Subsidy Scheme.
Elaine LoughlinGUEST
So we do expect that there will be increases in the subsidies that parents receive, possibly rolled out from January.
Elaine LoughlinGUEST
And also, I think childminders, which are an alternative to creches, and a lot of them are not in that core funding system, it does appear that there may be something on the tax side for childminders to perhaps bring them into core funding.
Michael SheehanGUEST
The Taunus agreed.
Michael SheehanGUEST
Most of the ministers agreed, except Minister Norma Foley.
Michael SheehanGUEST
She doesn't see it as an equality issue.
Michael SheehanGUEST
But now that whole issue is either watered down or off the table.
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