We need to break free of red tape and really put our children first

SHOCK! Horror! Two-thirds of Limerick’s creches failed HSE inspection reports made between 2011 and this year.

The reports have been published thanks to the scandal over the Prime Time undercover creche investigation and RTÉ has been helpful enough to put them on its own website.

Here we can note with horror that in Little Treasures, Fr Russell Road, Limerick, “a ceiling tile was noted to be missing in the laundry room”. And it gets worse. In Kilocolman Community Creche, Ardagh, Co Limerick, “the door from the Milk Room to the Baby Room tends to bang”.