Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 4 December 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Equality
Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Consider our Equal Start programmes. The additional staff that are employed in the Equal Start programmes also liaise with families and support the families. There was discussion earlier about the number of children and the number of families who are happy to engage in early learning. That is a piece of work that has been well supported by those workers as well. It is a family resource.