Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael)

This is disgraceful, if we are putting children's rights at the centre of our agenda. My final point is on the child care places. Child care providers do not know how many places will be available, are not happy about the costings that have been done and feel they will not be able to run their centres with the costings the Department has put out. These are three very serious issues about children and there is much confusion on each of them. I ask that the Minister of State come to the House to address those issues which are at the top of the agenda for many families in this country.