Creche :- how much do you pay

HashSlinging

We pay about 8,700+ per year... its a mini mortage without payment protection, tax relief or anything.

cajun_tiger

ok lets do the maths...
170 per week
170*4=680
680 per month
170*51=8,670.00 per year
they are so nice they only make you pay for 51 weeks out of a year

thats while she's in school for any half days or mid terms its €20 extra per day

climaxer

From reading other parenting sites and talking to other parents - €170 seems to be the norm here in Ireland - its very expensive. Luckily my Mam minds my son. She don't want to take anything but I told her I'd pay her the going rate and she insisted on giving me a discount. So she gets €100 per week and still ends up spending it back on the kids even though she's not exactly flush herself. I try make it up to her by getting her really nice pressies for xmas and birthdays.

mrhappy42

We had two kids in the creche...then had an aupair...then my wife resigned and now we thinking of leaving the country..you cant buy qaulity of live.

KoNiT

€13 Euro a day per kid, bring your own food, nappies, etc(I haven't a clue about other creches)

She looks after our two year old & 3 other children.

Obviously not out for the money, thank god!!

loyatemu

790 a month
food, nappies included

they're very good, but its still very expensive & if we have another the missus will probably have to give up work.

milltown

€800 a month including food but not nappies. He's usually only there 3.5 days per week as I work shifts, but because my shifts are different days each week we have to pay the full week rate to cover all the days.

With the finance minister complaining about pressures on the national pension fund due to an aging population it would seem to make sense to have some sort of tax relief on childcare. A lot of people I know will not have kids because the cost of the creche would be almost twice what their mortgage costs. With fewer people having children the population ain't gonna get any younger.

As above, another child will mean one less wage coming in. No sense in one of us working just to pay for somebody to mind our children while we work.

narommy

We've a good system going with our fella.

Make his breakfast. We wake him up. 7.30
Drop him down to my mam & dad. Go to work 7.45
Mam gives him breakfast
Then my old babysitter minds him from 8.45 on wards. Goes up to our house and dresses him and takeshim away for the day.
My mam takes him again with the help of my bros and sis at 4.15pm.
Then wecollect him at 7, feed him and play with him until 9pm.

€100 weekly for my old baby sitter and a weekend away or two for my parents. Baby sitter gets a few weeks paid when he visits his other grandparents.

We are sooooooooo lucky. I don't know how other people manage. Especially those who come up from the country with no family in the area. Paying for day care and to go out at night (if they can aford to)

The best thing is that everybody involved thinks he's great.

Sleipnir

I feel guilty.

My girlfriend's mother looks after our son 5 days a week while we're at work.
She flatly refuses to take any money because she says she has a new lease of
life with him (her husband died about 6 years ago and she was never the same since)
They have a fantastic time together; going to the park, the shops, meeting new people etc etc.
I think he prefers her to us!

If it wasn't for that fantastic, wonderful woman I don't know what we'd do.

narommy

milltown wrote:

With the finance minister complaining about pressures on the national pension fund due to an aging population it would seem to make sense to have some sort of tax relief on childcare. A lot of people I know will not have kids because the cost of the creche would be almost twice what their mortgage costs. With fewer people having children the population ain't gonna get any younger.

That is an excellent point.

Also there is the effect that it will have on the social structure in society. Middle/working classes will be less inclined to have children when compared to the richer and poored group in society.

RainyDay

milltown wrote:

With the finance minister complaining about pressures on the national pension fund due to an aging population it would seem to make sense to have some sort of tax relief on childcare. A lot of people I know will not have kids because the cost of the creche would be almost twice what their mortgage costs. With fewer people having children the population ain't gonna get any younger.

I don't believe that tax relief is the answer. Basic 'supply & demand' laws of economics mean that if you put more funds into the 'demand' side of the equation by giving tax relief to parents, then prices will simply increase. So the state will be giving money to creche owners, in the same way that tax relief for property investors goes straight into the landlords pocket.

It also discriminates against stay-at-home parents - Why should parents who continue working get this kind of additional subsidy from the state? It also discriminates against the low-waged, as the tax relief is of less or no value to them.

muffdiver

sick of all you lot whinging about childcare cost.....why have the little brats in the first place if they are such hassel..your really only interested in your own material worlds and can,t bear to part with money to a creche who have to look after the most important thing in your life..for a measly 170 a week ....... Bankers got paid millions to watch over our financial affairs and look what happened there....get a life.

Moonbeam

Trolling.

Closing thread as it is from 2004!