James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister accept that the wording she has read out and which her officials have supplied to her directly conflicts with the commitment in the programme for Government to extend the national childcare scheme to childminders who work in the family home? We all understand the current legal position and the current status quo. The Minister was part of the negotiation of the programme for Government. It is contained in the programme for Government and is a new policy. Unless she can point me to language in the programme for Government that somehow I am misinterpreting, I ask her to explain how that programme for Government commitment to extend the national childcare scheme to childminders working in the family home will be fulfilled.

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