Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Additional staff and additional training for existing staff make all sorts of sense to me. The Minister will know that better informing parents is difficult. He talks about targeting that group. Trying to get people to actually interact with the services will be difficult. Will the Minister explain to me a little more about, as I said, the basic nuts and bolts? If I understand this correctly, it is aimed at early learning care and at school-age children. Are we talking about a wraparound support? Are we talking about after-school services? Are we talking about preschool services and that half hour before school starts? Also, in a sense, there is the rationale behind that. If we are talking about that kind of wraparound, are we saying we have an understanding that those parents will be out at work, or is it not that? Is it that we are getting the State to step in more in terms of the life of the child? The Minister might tease out a couple of those questions for me.

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