Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 November 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion

Ms Elaine Dunne:

I will make one comment. People are always saying the system is broken but it is not. The funding is broken. I have travelled around the whole country in recent months and gone into very high quality services. We have met staff and parents and it has been a rewarding journey. One of the things that has come up is that funding is our biggest issue and if that could be fixed, it would fundamentally resolve everything underneath.