Early Childhood Care and Education
Dail Éireann — 2024-04-30
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Marc Ó Cathasaigh (GP), Waterford

I am smiling wryly at the Minister's previous answer. Teachers are very protective of their classrooms: "If they come into mine, they better not mess up the copies or anything else."
As regards the fourth strand of the together for better programme, we have ECCE, the access and inclusion model and the national childcare scheme. The first three I understand quite well, but we have a proposed equal participation model on which the Department is working. I am not terribly clear on what we are proposing here and I would like to know about the timeline of it.

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Sitting date: 2024-04-30