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

It is slightly separate to core funding. When you apply you have to state if your weekly fee for full time or part time are above the figures I cited. If they are, you are ineligible to apply. We estimate that approximately 3% of services have weekly fees above those numbers. It is a small number. It is a balance. We want to increase capacity. However, if we are increasing capacity in services to rates we generally believe are unaffordable that is probably not the best investment of State money. The capital programme is available to both community and private services. Community services can apply for the full cost up to €100,000. For private services it is matched funding. They can apply for up to €50,000 and seek the extra €50,000 as matched funding. It is again important to provide additional supports to those community services, which are often in areas of higher disadvantage. At the same time, we recognise that significant investment can be a struggle for private services too, and we look to go 50:50 with them to provide that.

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