205. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on behalf of Early Childhood Ireland, regarding commercial rates, which are of serious concern and stress for the services in Ireland, and in view of the fact that they are levied unfairly and inconsistently on early childhood care and education services and pose a serious threat to the sustainability of a sector that currently employs in a region of 22,500 staff, the discrepancies that exist in the percentage of services by county of commercial rates, which vary from 11% of the notified services in one county to 71% in another; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41414/13]

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205. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on behalf of Early Childhood Ireland, regarding commercial rates, which are of serious concern and stress for the services in Ireland, and in view of the fact that they are levied unfairly and inconsistently on early childhood care and education services and pose a serious threat to the sustainability of a sector that currently employs in a region of 22,500 staff, the discrepancies that exist in the percentage of services by county of commercial rates, which vary from 11% of the notified services in one county to 71% in another; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41414/13]

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