Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will be happy to do that before Report Stage. As a final point, I hear an awful lot about the competition between community-based and commercial child care. I wonder how much that is actually the case, particularly in large parts of the country. I say this more as a question and as something we might tease out. Are the community child care facilities really in competition with the commercial operators? Many of the services provided by community child care are provided in places of significant disadvantage or rural isolation, where there may not be a breadth of choice. To be very clear, the differentiation here was made for one reason and one reason only, namely, the community child care facilities are not businesses. They do not make a profit or aspire to make a profit, whereas commercial child care facilities do. That is the difference. Nonetheless, I am happy do as the Deputy asks.