Sinn Fein is proposing to cap the cost of childcare at 180 euro per week per child.

The party says this could save working families up to 4 and a half thousand euro a year.

Sinn Fein is also promising to invest 80 million euro into training programmes for childcare workers.

Sinn Fein Deputy Leader and candidate for Dublin Central, Mary Lou McDonald, says more state funding should be allocated to the childcare sector: