Dr. Fergal Lynch:

The national childcare investment programme is an earlier programme which was put in place quite a number of years ago. It was in place from 2007 until 2010. It was then replaced by subsequent schemes. Basically, it operated capital grants for childcare facilities throughout the country. It followed an earlier EU scheme called the equal opportunities capital programme, EOCP, which operated between 2000 and 2006. That was partly EU funded.