Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Department is monitoring this in different ways, such as through a Pobal exercise on vacancies and county child care surveys on capacity and place numbers. It is difficult to determine what the demand will be, or even what the current demand is in certain places, and to match demand and capacity.

I have confidence in the Department's ability to monitor that in an appropriate way, such that it can identify potential deficits in particular areas. On the other point made by the Deputy, there has been all sorts of estimations in terms the required capacity to meet the an anticipated increase in terms of labour activation.

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