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

I can. First, as the Deputy is aware, the road map is following the advice in terms of the reopening of childcare services and what happens during that reopening for the childcare profession. We are following the public health advice, and the advice we got in terms of this first effort is that we had to go into the homes. As I have already described, we worked with the Department of Health, the HSE and the sector. We looked at an example and developed the best scheme we could in the context of one option, namely, going into the homes of healthcare workers. It was not a question of carte blanche. That is what we had to do. Those restrictions were given to us.

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