Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

In last year's budget, the Government promised that an affordable child care scheme would be introduced in September this year. At the time, my party said the approach was not ambitious enough and that is still our view but we regard the introduction of the scheme as the correct overall approach. When will we see the legislation to enable this to happen and is it still a firm commitment of Government that the scheme will be in place for September?

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