Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)

We are in the throes of completing the action plan. We are looking at what opportunities we have. The more money we have, the more I would like us to do. That is the ambition of everybody here as well but we have work within the constraints that we have.

The action plan will be released before the end of the year. There is only a number of weeks left in the Dáil session. We will make some announcements around some aspects of what the Deputy has raised there.

There will be two phases to the action plan. What we do not achieve this year, we will be looking to achieve in the next four years as part of the lifetime of the Government.

The second phase of the action plan will be on foot of public consultation. That will be really helpful to us because it will identify issues that the members all identify here. That is a particular one that Deputy Currie has identified but it will identify issues from providers, from parents and from the widest possible scope. It will inform what we will do within the next three years after we have completed the second phase of the action plan.