Responsibility for child care services
Desmond complained that responsibility for child-care services was unclear among the Justice, Health and Education Ministers. Collins rejected the charge of inactivity and defended the existing arrangements; a brief interjection also referred to the Kennedy Report.
It is an entirely unsatisfactory situation whereby the Minister indicates that the Ministers for Health and Education have certain responsibilities also and between the three of them nobody knows who is responsible for child care services.
Comment on this
The responsibility in this area should not be unknown to the Deputy because the situation which exists now existed when the Tánaiste in the former Government, the then Leader of his party, set up the task force.
Comment on this
There is no question of inactivity on my part. There are some who say that there is anything but inactivity on my part.
