Debate contribution: Preschool Admissions: Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances Criterion
Debate contribution by Mr Daniel McCrossan on .
- MLA
- Mr Daniel McCrossan
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Ministerial Statement
- Heading
- Preschool Admissions: Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances Criterion
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5670267
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I was also here earlier, listening to the questions to the Minister and to his answers. Minister, it is clear that you have spent the summer perfecting how to blow your own trumpet, and you are doing an exceptional job of it. I remind you that your party and Sinn Féin have presided over some of the worst levels of child poverty in this place during your tenure in Government. Minister, you stated the figures earlier, and there is some concern. Can you guarantee that the plan will not result in children who live in poverty losing priority and that it will not create a postcode lottery, where children's chances depend entirely on whatever admissions criteria an individual preschool decides to adopt?
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