Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In terms of the affordable childcare scheme, and this is something I flagged with the Minister earlier this summer, where children are currently availing of the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme in normal settings but need to attend special care units as well, can the system administer services to both? If a family has a child with Down's syndrome, can the child attend the special needs unit in the morning and an affordable childcare setting in the afternoon or later on in the day, so the child integrates fully? It is something that has been raised with me a lot during the summer. In Grovelands Childcare, a crèche in the Minister of State, Deputy Moran's constituency, there are four children attending a particular setting. How are we going to integrate children with disabilities?

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