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# Katherine Zappone

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Good news for families: Over 5,000 extra childcare places to be created
Five times more children sign up to childcare schemes aimed at less well-off families
Children can now be adopted by their foster carers after 18 months
Homeless families will now receive free childcare during the summer months
The 'mixing of remains' will make it very difficult to identify babies at Tuam site
Call for reports into Oberstown youth detention centre to be published
One in five young LGBT people say they still face bullying and harassment
'Ann Louise would be proud' - Zappone receives Seal of Office after death of her wife
This new scheme will keep the most prolific young offenders at home and out of Oberstown
'An extraordinary person and a beautiful woman': Community turns out to pay respects to Ann Louise Gilligan
'Ireland has lost a fierce and dedicated campaigner': Tributes pour in for Ann Louise Gilligan
'They're extremely loyal. Even though they've grown up with neglect they just want to go home'
Varadkar willing to consider 'different approach' to secure Ibrahim Halawa's freedom
Micheál Martin says he has no reason not to trust Leo Varadkar
'You weren't allowed touch your own baby - your own flesh and blood'
Column: 'Quality childcare costs and we need well paid early educators to make it happen'
Planning childcare for the autumn? You may qualify for these subsidies
Children in Dublin's north inner city want violence and drugs off their streets
'Today is about Tuam': Catherine Corless commends Zappone for appointing experts to investigate burial site
Two young people remain missing after absconding from Oberstown campus
Over half of 16 and 17-year-olds in State care have no aftercare worker
'At the very least, Budget 2018 must match last year's childcare funds in order to deliver'
Children's Minister says she believed Joan Burton was in 'great danger' during protest, court hears
Thousands of families to lose out on money for childcare as Revenue can't give data to government
'Immoral and repulsive': Fury at Zappone's refusal for redress for mother and baby home survivors
Ireland is the first country to carry out a national LGBT youth strategy
'Urgent action is needed': Letters reveal shock at discovery of human remains at mother and baby home
Woman with intellectual disabilties left in foster home for two years after claims of sexual abuse
Gay army veterans WILL be allowed to march in Boston St Patrick's Day parade
Med schools 'conscious of distress' experienced by families of infants whose remains were sent to universities
Bill to change the penalty for an abortion to a €1 fine defeated by government
Watch: 'We took their babies and gifted them, sold them, trafficked them and starved them'
Government 'nervous' about extending Tribunal to other whistleblowers
5 serious questions for the government that Dáil 'clarifications' did not clarify
Enda Kenny takes a number of different positions on Zappone conversation
Tusla to appear before Dáil committee next week as McCabe controversy rumbles on
Fianna Fáil to abstain from vote of no confidence in Government
Tusla knew McCabe sex claims were false but kept them on file for two years, HSE claims
Political turmoil over the Maurice McCabe whistleblowing smears
Zappone says she met Maurice McCabe over false Tusla file