Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I will come back to the paperwork in a moment. In terms of more money, core funding is delivering very significantly from September of this year. Probably next week we will be announcing the allocations for core funding in year 3.

I will not say we will get rid of the fee freeze, because it is so important. I am aware there are a couple of services whose fees were last set in the mid-2010s, for example, in 2011, 2015 or 2016. I can understand that they may be far out of whack with a service that set its fees in 2021 just before the fee freeze came in. We are looking at that. I do not have the full answer for the Deputy today, but we are looking at that. It has to be the outliers. It cannot be a general everyone just starts to up their fees again, because then all the great savings that parents have seen will be wiped away.