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

As I have already said, the process concerning the representation of the advisory group was determined by a subgroup of the early years forum, which is a wider group. The Deputy could respect the principle that it chooses the representation. That is the first point. The second is that I will be including the organisation in the reference group in order to have additional consultation with it and others.

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