Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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375. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to introduce statutory regulation of the after school sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43090/13]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Child Care Act, 1991 is the primary legislation for regulating childcare policy. The Act currently provides for the making of regulations for pre-school services and amendments to the Act to provide for the regulation of after-school services are being brought forward as part of legislative process for the establishment by my Department of the new Child and Family Agency. This legislation is currently being finalised in conjunction with Parliamentary Counsel and it is my intention to bring it before the Oireachtas during the current term.