Ms Bernie McNally:

We can get the Deputy a full breakdown but of the 4,500 services out there, 34% provide full-day care. Some services provide both types of care, so these numbers will not add up to exactly 100%. Some 34% provide full-day care, 38% provide part-time care, 89% provide sessional a.m. services, which are often the hours covered by ECCE, 29% provide sessional p.m. services, which may refer to afternoon ECCE sessions, and 41% provide after-school services. Tusla might comment on the percentage that were inspected. I understand that approximately 2,500 inspections were completed last year. Some of these were repeat inspections. We expect that all service types are covered on a broadly proportionate basis, but I will ask Tusla to come back on that.

With regard to when the Department found out about Hyde and Seek, we have to respect the fact that Tusla is the independent regulator. It shares information with us as appropriate. Some time ago, it shared with us the fact that it was taking its most advanced enforcement actions against a particular service, which it named. We had to respect the legal process in place. We had to act very carefully in our response so as not to prejudice any action being taken.