Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister to consider looking at that proposal from Social Enterprise Ireland. It is €20,000. It will do the job of work of identifying those buildings where there is existing capacity and where childcare could be brought into those buildings. In some cases they are not used at all. I think that would be a worthwhile job of work and would be a way in which we could build capacity quickly within the sector. The social enterprise model has been proven to work already. For a small amount of money, I think it would be very worthwhile to do that mapping exercise as to where we could get increased capacity quickly, having a look at that and perhaps the Minister engaging with Social Enterprise Ireland himself.

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