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

In relation to phase 4, there is going to be a huge capacity issue. What is the Department of Children and Youth Affairs doing to address that? I go back to the point that if we are telling workers that they can only use the service on one out of five days, how is the Department addressing that capacity issue and what measures is it putting in place? Are the city and county childcare committees currently heat-mapping right across the country to understand, first, who the essential workers are and, second, how many of the services are going to sign up to the plan? The rumour on the ground is that, on 29 June, the Minister may not have the buy-in of all service providers.

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