Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Childcare: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed).

Ms Bernie McNally:

The range of measures we have put in place will ensure that a majority of the services that opened last July and August will be open again this July and August. We do not know and must wait to see next week, but the early indications we have received from various stakeholders we are engaging with and surveys we have done with providers are that the vast majority of services that were due to open next week will open. By the end of August and the beginning of September, the majority of the remainder will reopen. The feedback we are getting is that the package we have put together is broadly meeting needs-----

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