Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
9:30 am
Mr. Kevin McCarthy:
The impact for this September is that fees will be frozen. Our objective is to reduce fees beyond that but that is a budgetary issue. The Minister is very keen to be in a position to do that. As part of the upcoming Estimates discussions, we will be putting forward proposals to enable us to make further progress on the issue of affordability for parents next year and beyond. That is a budgetary matter for the Government. The other thing-----
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