Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)

Last Friday night I attended a meeting in Cork organised by the Cork County Childcare Committee. It was attended substantially by women involved in the provision of community child care and women whose children were the beneficiaries of community child care. If Government Members intent on voting down the Fine Gael motion had attended that meeting they would need hearts of stone not to be moved by the stories of the individual community child care facilities and parents involved. It is a pathetic commentary on the immaturity of this House that Members can, in political pygmy fashion, speak in favour of the motion and then vote against it.

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