Caít Keane (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister with the most important portfolio in the Government. If we get it right, like the foundation of a house, it will stand strong. According to Dr. Maria Montessori, "It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was." If we take that and go from there, every Minister will be diverting a bit of his or her budget into the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Reilly's, budget.