Ms Bernie McNally:

Reference has been made to parents not knowing whether childcare providers have insurance. The quickest way for them to find out is to ask providers whether they have sorted their insurance for January. Most of them have sorted it, or are about to sort it in the next few hours and days. That is the quickest way for parents to be assured about the insurance status of childcare providers and be able to enjoy Christmas thereafter. A parent who is told by a provider that it does not have insurance, but is working on it and hoping to have it sorted in the near future, will get an update in due course. We hope that the number of cases in which difficult situations will have to be faced in January will be tiny. The numbers could be very tiny.