Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. That leaves me. I have a couple of points. Before that, Senator Garvey could not come in to the meeting but she had a number of queries on transport to school when a parent gets their child a place at a special school and the difficulty of accessing that. There is the whole issue of summer provision, which is coming up all the time. It is a struggle to get staff to do it. There were issues last year with people not being paid until November. I think they are due to be addressed this year. I fully concur with the Senator's proposal that all early childhood care and education, ECCE, staff with a qualification should be eligible to work in summer provision. Those are some points Senator Garvey put forward that the Minister of State may want to comment on before I speak.