Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. It is clear there is a responsibility on the Department to provide training. If we are asking people to move from level 4 to level 5, there is some obligation on funders to provide support to people as they go about that journey. I can confirm that an additional training budget to facilitate the completion to level 5 in child care will be made available. It is crucially important also that a new CE supervisor to mentor and support the child care workers through this award will be in place before the end of April. These are two important pieces of news the Deputy can take back to his constituents.

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