We are outside of time. There are three speakers left and I would ask for their co-operation. I will take all three. I call an Teachta Costello.

I welcome that the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has managed to reduce the fees for many people using childcare but the reality is that many families using childminders are still excluded from these supports. In my constituency, there is a mix of people who choose childminders who are excluded from these supports and people who cannot access crèche places who would not choose a childminder but are forced into that because of the lack of crèche spaces. When will a solution for those who choose to use childminding services be rolled out and what are we doing to ensure adequate crèche places?

As the Taoiseach will be aware, there is quite a considerable shortage of taxis at present. One of the demands that the representative taxi groups have made is that taxi plate owners who are no longer using their taxi plates would be allowed to sell them to others, sometimes family members, who want to become taxi drivers. Otherwise, people can only get plates if they can afford expensive disability-accessible taxis which cost €65,000. That is way in excess of what huge numbers can afford. There are a lot of plates out there that are not being used but if they could be sold or transferred, we could increase taxi numbers.

I spoke to John, a constituent from Killaloe. His daughter, Livvy, is 11. She is autistic and has a moderate learning disability. At the start of this year, her behaviour took a downward spiral which saw her being suspended from school, attacking her father, his partner and her two brothers. Worse than that, she has recently started to say during these meltdowns that she wants to die. Livvy was seeing a psychiatrist in UHL, who has now left, and she has been waiting 18 months for a new appointment. When brought to child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, John was told that it is not the place for autistic children in Clare. There is no psychiatrist for children with disabilities in the entire mid-west. A Dublin-based locum, who is in the region every six weeks, cannot prioritise Livvy. If CAMHS is not the place for an autistic child who is experiencing suicidal ideation and suffers violent outbursts daily, where are they to go? Is it to accident and emergency at University Hospital Limerick, UHL? What is this family to do?

I thank the Deputies. On Deputy Costello's question, that is an issue that has come up a lot for me in my constituency too. Many people use childminders for lots of different reasons. It is the view of Government that we should include childminders in the early education and childcare structure and that people should be able to get the subsidies if they use a childminder but my understanding is that to do that they have to be registered with Tusla for good reasons around quality and child protection. We cannot be subsidising an unregistered childminder. We are trying to get that right to make it easier for childminders to get on the register and, therefore, easier for parents to get the subsidy. We will keep working on that. The Deputy has my assurance on that.

On the taxis, I am not aware of any plans to allow people to sell on their licences. That has consequences too. I am glad to hear Deputy Boyd Barrett is advocating, once again, on behalf of taxi drivers. The Deputy is a strong advocate for taxi drivers. It is one of the reasons I was so surprised to see in the Deputy's document that he believed some of them were in league with Fianna Fáil and part of this conspiracy to overthrow-----