Childcare Measures
- Child benefit is to increase by €5 per week.
- Paternity leave of two weeks is to be introduced from September 2016.
- A second year of free pre-school education is to be introduced - it will now cover from age 3 until the child starts primary school.
- Free GP care is to be extended to the under-12s.
- The Community Childcare Subvention Scheme is to be extended by up to 8,000 places.
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