David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This question relates to what the Minister just said and asks him to provide an update on the unmet need for childcare places, the uptake of the new capital scheme which he has published and his future plans for that sector. It has to do with housing estates being built around the country but no childcare places being provided in those estates. In some instances, parents are not able to go to work because they cannot find anybody to mind their child. Ideally, these childcare places would be very local and people would be able to walk to them with their child. They also have to be of scale in order to work properly.

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