Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I do not believe the Government should discriminate between different approaches to parenting and child care. We need to ensure that full-time paid child care facilities are both accessible and of good quality but I argue that we also need to support those parents who decide to provide full-time care themselves or to use relatives, grandparents or a paid child minder. Parents are the best people to call what is the best form of child care to use for their children and I question why we are using our tax system, and it now looks like new support systems, to favour one choice or form of child care over the other.

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