Marie Moloney (Labour)

After-school child care facilities is probably mostly what we are referring to here, not preschool, because at preschool the children are under seven. There is no obligation for the parent to work during the preschool year. It is after-school child care facilities for which I would be fighting much harder because that is when the parents have an obligation to work.

Perhaps I should wait until section 4. These matters are spilling over into each other. There is an elephant in the room that no one has mentioned, which is the fact that it takes two make a baby and there is a second parent. We should be going after those to help support their children. One may argue as much as one likes, but I have dealt day in, day out with young girls who must go through the courts looking for maintenance. Their partners are in arrears and threatened with jail, and they still cannot get the money out of them. We should be looking at going after the other partner for help and support. I suppose I am straying into section 4 and I will hold back my comments on that.

That is my comment on the amendment by Fianna Fáil. Unfortunately, it is probably worded wrongly by them.