James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Childminders have been deliberately left out. This requirement will fall on services where at least two people are providing the service. The standards have to be applied by someone so there needs to be at least two people involved in the service. There has to be an employer and an employee, if I can put it that way. A childminder who is minding a child on his or her own - on her own, mainly - is excluded from this.