312. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the contradiction between the law stating the mandatory school starting age as six years old and her Department's early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme which forces children born in the last quarter of each year to start school between the ages of four years and nine months and four years and 11 months rather than allowing parents to have the freedom of having their child start preschool and school at a later age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7810/17]

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312. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address the contradiction between the law stating the mandatory school starting age as six years old and her Department's early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme which forces children born in the last quarter of each year to start school between the ages of four years and nine months and four years and 11 months rather than allowing parents to have the freedom of having their child start preschool and school at a later age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7810/17]

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