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

The Minister was very clear about Early Childhood Ireland, which allows a discount for its members in respect of insurance of approximately 30%. There is a 10% increase in the rate for members of ECI that fall in under that group of 3,000. For the other 1,600, this is where Deputy Sherlock talks about the twofold, threefold or fourfold increase in insurance because they are not members of ECI. They have chosen not to be and may be members of a different organisation. Where is this conversation over and back between now and the end of December? They are the ones who are going to have a significant insurance increase. A percentage of them are going to be quite high. They are the ones that go from January to January and that are on the various radio programmes. Will the Minister put an Oireachtas helpline in place so those providers can get on to her directly to get an answer? Some of them are saying they cannot afford to go from €3,000 to €9,000. The woman the other night on Mary Wilson's "Drive Time" show was very clear. There was a woman on yesterday evening whose insurance cost has gone from €1,500 to €4,500. They are not members of ECI. They are the ones who are experiencing the large increase. In this case we are talking about an increase of 200%.