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

My question is to do with the ECCE. The announcement last year of the extra two years of the ECCE was very welcome but that does not come in until September 2018. What happens to the children who thought they would enrol in January or April this year? Some of the providers are saying they cannot take them on because the scheme has changed but, technically, it will not change until September. What is happening in the meantime? It is a question of operation more than anything else.