Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed)

Ms Marie Daly:

I will take that question on behalf of the Crann Support Group. First of all, the difficulty was not in any way connected, from our point of view, to its not being worthwhile for us to reopen. We would have very much welcomed reopening our services using family pods if we were allowed to do so. However, insurance-wise, that was not possible for some reason. When it comes to going into somebody's home, one is looking at employer law and services having to take responsibility for supervising the people who would be going in there. That would have left our staff open to allegations that might be made against them. There were numerous reasons that the scheme did not work but I can say for my part that it had nothing to do with its not being worthwhile for the providers. It was more the difficulties-----

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