Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Having listened to the Minister's previous response, I will probably ask her to meet more women for a different reason. She is probably browned off answering questions about child care schemes and the various ways of funding them. My question is specifically about the after-school child care scheme that was introduced when the previous Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection cut the one-parent family payment to ribbons on the premise that this would put lone parents back to work and take them out of the so-called social welfare trap. She did so on the basis of providing excellent Scandinavian-style child care, which, I am afraid, still only exists in Scandinavia. Could the Minister comment on this scheme and the progress relating to it?

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