James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A number of child care support programmes are implemented by my Department to assist parents with the cost of child care. These include the early childhood care and education programme, ECCE, the community child care subvention programme, CCS, and the training and employment child care programmes, TEC. This funding is provided through the child care services in which children eligible under the programmes are enrolled.

There are four child care community providers in the geographical area of Darndale, Belcamp and Moatview which received funding in the school year 2014-15 under the support programmes. The child care services and the funding provided are as follows: Darndale Belcamp integrated child care, €578,214; New Life child care centre, €45,853; St. Francis community playgroup, €61,420; and Moatview early education centre, €44,384. These child care services continue to participate in the child care support programmes in the current school year and provisional funding totalling in excess of €640,000 has been approved by my Department. A final funding figure for the school year 2015-16 will be established at a later date, when the enrolment process for qualifying children has been completed. Private child care providers in this area are currently eligible to participate in all of the support programmes, with the exception of the community child care subvention scheme and will continue to be funded where eligible children are enrolled.

I am further advised by Tusla that, in 2015, it provided €328,226 in direct funding to early years services in the Darndale-Belcamp area.

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