‘Ask your Ma for help’ is not a good public policy for childcare in Ireland. So says Liz Carolan, a working parent on maternity leave who claims that “formal childcare for small babies in Dublin is a fiction”. Liz spoke to Ciara Newstalk Breakfast this morning.

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