Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements Dail Éireann — 2021-02-04 ============================================================ Seán Sherlock (LAB), Cork East It will be about money flowing into the sector if the Government decides to improve the pay and conditions. The question arises as to the balance of the onus: is the onus on the employer or on the Government through funding via the schemes into improving pay and conditions? That is the question that will be asked. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2021-02-04/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:01+00:00 Sitting date: 2021-02-04