Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We need a lot of money for 2017 to cover the full-year cost of the two years of preschool plus the cost of the access and inclusion model, AIM. From September 2017, additional moneys will be available to introduce the single affordable child care scheme. This will include the targeted element in the new way that I am doing it as well as the subsidy for those under three years of age. That relates to the funding question. I did not have enough time to answer the other questions.

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