Averil Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That might need to be connected in a Government context to the introduction of regulation to cover particular people working in the child care sector. Proper regulation and a registration system for nannies and au pairs, for example, has been called for. Perhaps it needs to be connected with that. I had hoped that, at least if the Minister rejected the amendments on the basis of their lack of sophistication, which I accept, but he accepted the principle underpinning them, he could offer a way to provide for this categories of child minders. For example, we do not want a situation to arise where someone working as a nanny represents a child welfare risk and such a person simply moves to work in another home? That is dangerous and wrong and it should not be beyond the capability of the House to find a way to address it.