Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I also support the amendment. Deputy Sherlock has put it well. We must test the legislation to see how robust it is and whether it needs to be tweaked, and see what we might learn from the results. It will be two years before the affordable childcare scheme is up and running in its entirety. Checks and balances are good. If there was more checking and balancing featured in legislation as it came before the Houses, we might learn a lot. As this work is monumental in the area of child care and its future provision, I favour checking it as it goes along and tweaking it, making amendments where needs be, and learning from the good parts. To continuously review it under a timeframe, whether it is six or 12 months, is good practice.

I compliment Deputies Funchion and Mitchell.