Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I know, exactly. I thank the Deputy. I am aware of those cases as well. What I am going to say is maybe to try to refashion what I am already putting out there. I quoted the numbers of those who are not part of Early Childhood Ireland, the ones who were with Ironshore Europe. They are the ones that are going to face the increase. I also put on the record based on the information we have that generally a number of them are in the order of a 100% increase, which is still substantial but it is not 300% or 400%. That is important. What about the ones, then, for which there is this exceptional level of increase? I have two comments First, in terms of the overall administrative supports that we want to offer in general and in light of the pressure and so on, there will be some money there for them. If that is €3,000 to €9,000, although I do not know this for a fact, I think that it is a larger childcare provider. If it is larger, it has larger numbers of children and will get more support from us in terms of the programme support payment. Second, if there is a major sustainability issue that they have to combat to come in to the Pobal city or county childcare committee, CCC, and if not to come to us. I will examine whether that means providing a dedicated person to get on to, that is a technical issue and we will sort that out.