Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

Quality child care is important and it is not too late for the Minister of State to admit he is wrong, to say in the words of Senator Leyden, "The scheme will be changed", and to climb on the horse with Senator Mary White and take credit. Senator White deserves credit in this regard because she promulgated this view long before anybody else. Middle and lower income couples will be caught and that is not right.