Ms Frances Byrne:

I do not want to address this specific issue because it has already been spoken about very eloquently. I want to go back and acknowledge what Deputy Sherlock said earlier. We really hear him. We have a policy team and we work very hard to try to engage with this committee. I absolutely hear the Deputy. The point about awareness raising and education is borne out. We have the enormous privilege, as an organisation, of commissioning a nationwide poll every year. It is so interesting to see that older people and farmers, for some reason, are the sector's biggest cheerleaders. I wish the organisation had been conducting those polls before the introduction of the ECCE programme. We believe, and this is backed up anecdotally, that grandparents can see what Deputy Sherlock was describing with regard to his own children. In the last decade or so, almost every three-year-old has attended preschool.