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# Roderic O'Gorman

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# Childcare
Review finds that the average cost of delivering childcare across all services in Ireland is €4.14 per hour
The review was undertaken by Crowe in association with Apteligen in 2018.
# Seanad
'The nuns sent me away with your child in a wheelbarrow': Powerful speeches in debate on mother and baby homes
Senators are debating legislation related to records compiled by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes.
# Commission
Senators express 'serious concern' that mother and baby home records will be sealed for 30 years
The Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes is due to submit its final report later this month.
# debunked
Debunked: Three false claims about Minister for Children Roderic O'Gorman
An image containing three misleading claims about the Green Party TD has been circulating online.
# INspections
'Mould, fire hazards and damp' identified at Direct Provision centres as new Minister aims for independent inspections
No inspections of centres have taken place since late March due to Covid-19.
# Campaign
Children's Minister accepts apology from John Connors who says he was 'politically naive'
Connors was part of a campaign that sought to have Roderic O’Gorman resign.
# slumber party
Children's minister: Eamon Ryan's Dáil snooze 'a moment of human frailty'
Footage of Ryan asleep in the Convention Centre last night has gone viral.
# Interview
'We'll have to deal with what the far-right say': Minister Roderic O'Gorman on childcare, social media and ending Direct Provision
O’Gorman sat down with TheJournal.ie as he take the reins of the children’s ministry.
# Roderic O'Gorman
Minister for Children says 85% of creches to re-open after 'inaccurate' information provided to Dáil
Earlier, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar had told the Dáil that just 60% of childcare providers would be re-opening.
# Roderic O'Gorman
Children's minister rejects 'homophobic' online claims linking him to comments about paedophilia
Roderic O’Gorman criticised the claims made on social media in recent days.
# Green obsession
Why this councillor was canvassing for Trevor Sargent... when he was 10
Roderic O’Gorman’s love for the Greens goes all the way back to canvassing with Trevor Sargent in 1992.
A government department got this Green Party councillor's name hopelessly wrong
“Roderic Broderick”
# Dublin West
Here's who is in the running for the by-election after Patrick Nulty's resignation
These are the runners and riders after the shock resignation of Patrick Nulty at the weekend.
# Women in Politics
Leinster House is 'unnatural' - Gilmore
Speaking at a conference in Dublin this afternoon on how to elect more women, Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore compared Leinster House to a boarding school for its lack of gender balance.
# Greens
Green Party: We want to double party membership by 2016
The party, which celebrates its 30th anniversary in Irish politics today, has unveiled its plan for rebuilding the party.
Voices
Column: This is a difficult time for the Greens - but we have reasons for optimism
The Green Party has a lot of work to do to regain the trust of voters – but Irish politics needs our voice, writes new Chairperson of the party Roderic O’Gorman.
# Greens
We must rebuild trust with voters – Green Party
In an article for TheJournal.ie, incoming Chairperson Roderic O’Gorman says that the party is ‘optimistic’ about the future – but there is a ‘difficult road ahead’.
# Dublin West
A farmer, a teacher and JFK: meet the Dublin West by-election candidates
A total of 13 candidates are running for the seat vacated by the death of Brian Lenihan. TheJournal.ie runs the rule over all of them…
# By-election
13 names in the running for Dublin West by-election
Six non-party candidates line up against seven from established parties, in the by-election to fill Brian Lenihan’s old seat.
# Starter's Orders
First candidates named in Dublin West by-election
The election is eight weeks away, but we already have a few candidates – though larger parties are yet to name theirs.