I welcome the announcement yesterday by the Minister for Children, Disabilty and Equality, Deputy Norma Foley, of seven new early learning and childcare projects under the State-led early learning and childcare capital programme. It was especially good to see Boyle included in that allocation this year. There have been a lot of representations. It has been raised in this House and the Lower House on repeated occasions by Government representatives and it is good to see Government is delivering where a community has demonstrated extreme need for this. I congratulate the Boyle childcare committee led by Christina Egan of the Boyle family resource centre. I thank all my colleagues in the constituency who have collectively worked on this. I might have been the only one in the country who adhered to the embargo time, but I am not going to throw the rattle out of the pram on this occasion.

I also recognise Dyslexia Awareness Month, which Senator Crowe just mentioned. I will not go over the figures again. It is very important to mention it. I spoke to a parent recently who spent a week working with one of their children, concentrating on preparing the child for the Friday morning spelling test. Right up until the Thursday evening the child really put the effort in. What threw the child on the Friday morning was the teacher saying there were five minutes to do the questions. That just threw the whole thing out the window. I just want to recognise that.

That connects very easily into the work we are doing on inclusive education at the Joint Committee on Education and Youth at the moment. Feedback from extensive work on that which Senator Nelson Murray has been involved with me, has pointed out that continuous professional development must be a core part of building a genuinely inclusive education system. It is important that we recognise Dyslexia Awareness Month in this House. The foundation of the campaign this month is effective teaching changes lives. That is a very important message and can probably stretch far beyond dyslexia into a number of other areas. I would support having a debate in this House on that topic, which Senator Crowe called for.

I welcome this morning's announcement of funding for community vehicles under measure 2 of the CLÁR programme. It is great to see a small community in Keadue, operating out of the Mo Chairde Centre in St. Ronan's Hall benefiting from getting just under €27,000 to support its meals on wheels programme, which is delivering these meals directly where they are needed in the community. It is another example that when a community can demonstrate demand, show where it is needed and engage with those people, Government will support that. I recognise Government for that.