Frances Fitzgerald said she was concerned about figures in a report published today which found “examples of three-year-olds eating hamburgers and crisps”.
The latest findings of the large-scale Growing Up In Ireland study are out today. As well as detailing the health and wellbeing of 11,000 Irish three-year-olds, they also show the huge effect of the recession on Irish families.
The long-term study focusing on childhood found a significant increase in the number of parents going through financial problems between 2008 and 2011.
The Committee will hear proposals on how to tackle childhood obesity following the major report highlighting that one in four three-year-olds in Ireland today is overweight.
A study by the ESRI on nine-year-old children showed that there are many benefits to after-school activities for children – except when they have too many.
A new study about growing up in Ireland has revealed children’s hope and worries about the future – and showed how they feel about family life, school and friends.
THE GOVERNMENT IS planning to introduce new legislation this year that would give employees the legal right to request to work remotely.
Remote work hubs will be invested in to ensure they are in locations that suit commuters and are close to childcare facilities.
The practice has become normalised since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and many are relishing the opportunity to avoid long commutes and being away from home.
If it was brought in on a permanent basis, it would also mean employees could technically live wherever they wanted.
So today we’re asking: Would you live somewhere else if you had the option to work from home permanently?
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