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The Minister states: The Department of Children, Disability and Equality has policy responsibility for improving access to high quality and affordable Early Learning and Care and School-Age Childcare. DCDE has recently established a Supply Management Unit, and a key part of that Unit's remit is to develop a planning function, for monitoring, analysing and forecasting of the supply and demand for early learning and childcare in a nuanced and specific way at local area level. M

The Minister states: I have established the accelerating infrastructure task force to support the immediate work programme of the new infrastructure division in my Department, which is to identify and propose measures to address barriers to the delivery of strategic infrastructure across Ireland.  This issue is key priority for me and the Government.  The work programme for the task force and the new division will focus on many critical infrastructure areas in terms of the el