Dáil debates

Thursday, 24 March 2022

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions

Childcare Services

9:00 am

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Owing to the manner in which the higher capitation payment was made in respect of graduates when it was based on the number of children participating in the ECCE programme rather than the number of hours of graduate-led provision, approximately 1% of sessional services got a disproportionate uplift under the older system. When they put their numbers into the ready reckoner, they came out as being down slightly. I can give a clear guarantee. We have conveyed this to the services but this is a valuable opportunity to state that no service will be less well off for core funding than under the previous arrangement.

In the coming days we will communicate with all services about the transition payment, which is the payment we will provide to them when the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS, ends but before core funding kicks in, hopefully in September. That transition payment will be made in June, July or August and we will issue information about it in the coming days.

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