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 move to the new core funding model from this September will result in very significant increases in public investment going into the sector. As the Deputy has acknowledged, one of the initial conditions of availing of core funding is that crèches freeze their fees at September 2021 levels but in effect-----