National strongly opposes the Minister having the new provisions regarding the network management of the early childhood education sector. We certainly opposed the consultation phase being truncated at a time when the early childhood sector was under incredible stress and they begged for more time and a better time for them, rather than during COVID when they were having to deal with shortages in their centres and were not able to put in submissions. But the Minister carried on with this as he is inclined to do. The Minister said, "It will all be OK, this network management planning, because there will be national and regional policy statements, and it will all be strategic and planned." Except nobody knows what is going to be in those national or regional policy statements. Nobody knows what the Minister's strategy is or what his planning is, and so anyone wanting to set up a new centre is shadow boxing. They don't know what they're going to be judged on. They don't know what the criteria will be. 