Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Issues Regarding Childcare Facilities: Discussion

Mr. Pat Smyth:

The Department may want to address the first part of the Senator's questions in terms of policy. One of the pieces that is very relevant here is that the legislation and the inspection process around this are very new. There has been an enormous amount of work done in the past two and a half years in the context of getting to see the operators and understanding how that process works. It is important to make the point that this is a new process in respect of which there is much learning going on and that this affects the answers we can provide in terms of the actuality of what is happening with regard to the setting of regulations. In terms of the process and how we are going to change it, what we are dealing with that is part of that process.

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