Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We may not disagree on the practicalities. It just may be difficult but I do not know that it is impossible. Maybe the difference has nothing to do with practicalities but how inclusive we want the Bill to be. I certainly would feel remiss, having this opportunity to raise the mater. I am only now acting in a seconded capacity because I am no longer my party's spokesperson for children and youth affairs. While I have not prepared for this, in terms of engagement with NGOs, I know that in the past this issue would have also been a concern. I wonder have any voices reflected on the views that I have shared this morning. I recall that it would have been an area of consideration and concern, certainly to some representative voices in regard to child care provisions.

This legislation is about what we can do and I fully appreciate that situation. I believe that it is within our gift to make the Bill applicable in the other circumstances that I have instanced. There are many thousands of children involved in those settings.