Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask this given that, in reply to a parliamentary question I asked earlier in the year, the Minister said a full second preschool year would cost in the region of €180 million. However, for next year, the Minister has allocated only an additional €47 million, of which €11 million will be taken up with the restoration of the capitation grant. Therefore, as I understand it, there is only an additional €36 million for the introduction of this scheme in 2016.

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