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:
The normal inspection programme is all unannounced. The only announced inspection is the fit-for-purpose inspection. This is the first inspection before a new service is opened. A new service that wishes to open approaches us. We go through all the documentation and conduct a fit-for-purpose inspection before any children are in the service. It is an empty service, so it is a theoretical inspection regarding what it might look like. That is the only inspection that is announced. Everything else is unannounced.
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