Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge this is an area the Deputy knows particularly well. As I said, we have brought in these allocations under the NDP. They will be able to be drawn down next year and the following year. I would like it if the envelope were a bit bigger. We will always be pushing to grow the capital as well as the current side we spoke about earlier. We will continue to work to grow that. The figures are big, particularly when one designs purpose-built childcare facilities. We want that more and more, so that we are giving the very best to our children.

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