Emotions are running high outside Government Buildings amid the ongoing Budget announcements in Tynwald.
Parents are demonstrating their disapproval of the major cutbacks in pre-school facilities which were leaked at the end of last week.
The sitting got under way at 10am, but earlier the Chief Minister Allan Bell faced the protesters by accepting in person a petition from the protesters.
He took time to speak to the media and outlined his own dismay at the measures which have had to have been taken (see audio).
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