Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion
Mr. Brian Lee:
There are both scheduled inspections and triggered inspections in our work. If we receive information of concern regarding a service, we may trigger an immediate inspection of that service. That information could come through our unsolicited information office. I will be clear on this because it is a really important point. Some services might be subject to a higher proportion of inspections because we are more concerned about them. If we are concerned about a service, it could be the subject of three or four inspections in a year. If a service is considered to be very high-performing and good, it might be inspected at a much lower rate.
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