Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I want to touch on another issue. I apologise if it has been raised. I was following the meeting in my office, but I may have missed it. It is about the inspection at ECCE level. Some 16% were found to be major non-compliant when inspected, which is a worry. With the community childcare subvention plus saver scheme 20% were found to major non-compliant. What is the repercussion if a service provider is found to be major non-compliant? What is the immediate repercussion and what is the follow-up? How is it ensured the provider comes into compliance thereafter? That is a worrying level of negative results. Is our inspection regime deep enough? If one in five is going down on inspection, or one in six, I would like to ensure as many of these as possible are inspected.