With every issue of the magazine, Accountancy Ireland hosts a round-table discussion with experts in their field on the theme of the issue. Popular topics inclu...
Election special: what the parties promise for working parents
Our Election Insights series continues by focusing on the main parties' election manifestos regarding childcare. Chartered Accountants Ireland's Director of Public Affairs, Crona Clohisey, and Head of Public Policy, Stephen Lowry, compare the parties' commitments to improving childcare for working parents.
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Election special: how will the parties support small business?
It's election week, and in the run-up to polling day, Chartered Accountants Ireland's public policy team have analysed the main parties' manifestos to examine what each is saying on some of the key topics of interest to Institute members. In the first of this special Election Insights series, the Institute’s Director of Public Affairs, Crona Clohisey, and Head of Public Policy, Stephen Lowry, discuss the various parties' commitments to support small business.
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Special episode: Budget 2025
Budget 2025 was Minister for Finance Jack Chambers's first budget in the finance portfolio, but it is, nonetheless, the last budget package we will see from the current Government before we enter a general election cycle. Crona Clohisey, Director of Public Affairs at Chartered Accountants Ireland, Sarah Meredith, Tax Partner at Grant Thornton and Stephen Lowry, Head of Public Policy at Chartered Accountants Ireland discuss what the budget contained and who it missed.
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Unpacking Northern Ireland's childcare challenges
In the second part of a two-part series, Accountancy Ireland talks to Zara Duffy, Aoife Hamilton and Paula O’Neill about how parents are feeling let down by the current childcare system in Northern Ireland and how survey findings show that it has become increasingly difficult to juggle childcare responsibilities and a career, as the cost of appropriate childcare has gradually become unaffordable.
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Childcare in Ireland: A balancing act for parents and providers
At the end of 2023, Chartered Accountants Ireland set up a series of focus groups to gather members' views on childcare, and the findings were stark. Parents are coming against rising costs and dwindling space in creches, as well as the current system's impact on careers, working days, and business operations. In part one of a two-part series, Sinead Donovan, Emma Fidgeon-Kavanagh, and Cróna Clohisey discuss what could be done to improve the childcare system in Ireland.
With every issue of the magazine, Accountancy Ireland hosts a round-table discussion with experts in their field on the theme of the issue. Popular topics include: diversity in the workplace, the future of the accountancy profession, regulation, public sector, Brexit, ethics and governance. Find out more: www.accountancyireland.ie