Departmental Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-17
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Neale Richmond (FG), Dublin Rathdown

I think of my own daughter's preschool costs with 12 kids who have completely separate childcare needs. No household looks the same anymore, thankfully, but equally, the outgoings and what they need differ. Not to be negative because that genuinely is not the intention, but I will bring it back to my geographic concern that those of us, like the Minister, who represent Dublin constituencies will not see the material and educational benefit that perhaps will be seen by other constituencies with lower costs to providers and lower costs for parents in simply getting kids to childcare facilities and in the impact of their commute. Is that going to be taken into account? Is there definite outreach? Again, I look at my constituency being behind the national take-up of the overall scheme. How can we offset that to make sure there is relative equity throughout the regions in the provision of this new scheme?

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Sitting date: 2022-11-17