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A Shannon Creche has poured cold water on new state proposals to lower childcare costs for struggling parents. It comes as the Department of Children has unveiled new plans to provide 800 new childcare spaces, by purchasing buildings in rural and disadvantaged areas that can be ran on a not for profit basis. New figures from the Federation of Early Childhood Providers show almost 1,000 childcare facilities have closed in the last six years. Co-Owner of Kidz Haven in Shannon Noel Mulderrig has been telling Clare FM's Daragh Dolan that this trend is likely to continue.