Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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-----because it is just not the straightforward 1:3 ratio. It is the fact that that staff member for the three babies has to get breaks and go on holidays or may get sick, so there have to be additional floating staff who always have to be available to swap in, and those people have to be paid. I do not think that gets said and highlighted often enough. It is not even the basic ratio. It is all the relief that goes with it, and rightly so, in the Organisation of Working Time Act and everything like that.