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

There is a very strong uptake of core funding in counties Cavan and Monaghan. It is 98% in services in Monaghan and 97% in Cavan, which are among the best rates in the country. There are definitely capacity constraints in both of those counties but we do have vacancies in both. I think it is about an 8% vacancy rate in Monaghan and a 12% vacancy rate in Cavan. However, in particular areas like toddler rooms and baby rooms, there are pressures. When we designed core funding, we did it in such a way as to reward those services that have baby rooms more. We recognise that, given the greater cost of the lower ratios, which I think we all agree are appropriate, core funding should support those baby and toddler rooms more, which it does. Services across Cavan and Monaghan are able to avail of that additional support through core funding if they so choose.

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