Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would like to ask a question about the 20,000 people with no qualifications who are minding children today. I refer to grandmothers, sisters, aunts and neighbours who have been minding children for years and years. Is it not correct to say we will need those people to provide child care into the future? How does this scheme propose to bring them into the system without requiring them to go back to college to get a level 5 qualification, which they will not want to do? Is there space for them in this scheme?