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

I would like to have more time because there is a good bit in there. In last year's budget, we put in place €250 million in core funding. The purpose of this new money is to support services to allow them to pay their staff better and deal with a wider range of financial issues they encounter.

All services, including ECCE-only services, receive that money. I know that small sessional services have flagged concerns about how much they benefitted from core funding. We saw that even the small services received an extra €30 million but in order to further address those concerns, we have undertaken this review, looking at only those small sessional services. The information we get from that will inform the decision regarding how the extra money we got for ECCE core funding next year is directed.

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