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

I will take the Deputy's last question, on whether it would feed into the negotiations for budget 2018. The answer is "Absolutely." I am happy to come back with an exact, or almost exact, deadline for when we expect to have it but I need to check with officials first. The terms of the review are being worked on. I appreciate that the child care sector will be looking for them but its own research will feed into the review and is guiding us now in the decisions we make on how to use the money I got in budget 2017.

We anticipate that this will come and will give us more evidence than we have now to enable us to have strong negotiations for budget 2018.

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