Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and Dublin Fingal West general election candidate Lorraine Clifford-Lee will outline details of Fianna Fáil’s policy for affordability and accessibility in healthcare at the party’s morning briefing, while Micheál Martin will be in Offaly – Edenderry, Birr and Tullamore – and later in Limerick city.

Under Fine Gael’s proposals, the rate of parents benefit will be more closely aligned to a mother or father’s income in an effort to encourage them to 'spend valuable time with their newborn children'

The party launched its childcare policy on Wednesday morning and stated that it would create another 30,000 places in childcare and 'set fair wages for childcare educators'.

Energy bills will go down under Fine Gael, Taoiseach Simon Harris pledged in Virgin Media 1’s ‘The Big Interview’ on Wednesday night.

Fine Gael is proposing to cap childcare fees at a maximum of €600 per month, as the party pledges to make 30,000 public childcare places

Families will have to pay no more than €600 a month for childcare costs under Fine Gael proposals for children and parents. The party has pledged to introduce a €200-monthly cap on the costs of childcare per child,

FINE GAEL HAS promised to cap the cost of childcare at €200 per child per month and €600 per family for families with more than three children. Launching their plans today in Dublin, Justice Minister Helen McEntee said that these caps would be introduced in the first Budget if Fine Gael is re-elected.