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

I could not keep writing because I have so many questions for the Minister. It was a great answer and I appreciate it but the Minister has left me with a number of questions that I ask her to expand on. Could she expand on the school-age commitments? Where is the legislation at the moment because my understanding is that we were to expect that before the end of the year - possibly in the House? When can we expect it? I assume it will be on next year's legislative programme but what stage is it at and how can we support it?

On the registered childminders and the sum of €0.5 million, where are we with regard to recruiting those development workers? The Minister mentioned the company that is delivering the ICT programme and the awareness programme. Are we on target to ensure this awareness programme will be up and running for the spring because it will take time for people to get involved in and understand it? There is no point in having it up and running in the last week in August.

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