Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I acknowledge the manner in which the Deputy and his party leader have followed this through. What I can say is that the portal was recently upgraded and it now includes fee lists for the previous programme year of 2023 to 2024. There is an issue at present - there is no point in saying there is not - in terms of the capacity of the Hive website to go further back. To ameliorate that or make recompense, the officials are currently working to ensure that the 2021-22 fees list will be available. I am told it will be available in the coming weeks and that is the best commitment I can give. I am happy to revert to the Deputy and discuss this with him again in a few weeks if it is not made available to him. That is the situation as it stands.

Enormous money has gone into the whole issue of childcare. Of that, there is no doubt. Just short of €1 billion has gone into core funding and there has been significant improvement. It is important that parents have access to information on what the fees were in 2021 to 2022. As I said, that will be available through the childcare committee.

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