Can the Minister consider perhaps requesting the parents to register online for the €80 per month ACS subsidy instead of placing more onerous admin work on childcare services? This was done for the free GP Under 6 scheme where the parents entered in all their data and the GP simply went online and accepted or rejected the application. Once validated by the childcare service, the €80 could then be lodged direct in to the parents account by Dept of Social Protection along with their children’s allowance. The relevant Depts. Have all that financial data already and it would mean each parent who really wants the subsidy has to apply for this. Surely is this not the way every other Government initiative works. Where the beneficiary, in this case the parent, must apply themselves?
Kate Guerin
Posted on 8 Jun 2017 4:21 pm
Can the Minister consider perhaps requesting the parents to register online for the €80 per month ACS subsidy instead of placing more onerous admin work on childcare services? This was done for the free GP Under 6 scheme where the parents entered in all their data and the GP simply went online and accepted or rejected the application. Once validated by the childcare service, the €80 could then be lodged direct in to the parents account by Dept of Social Protection along with their children’s allowance. The relevant Depts. Have all that financial data already and it would mean each parent who really wants the subsidy has to apply for this. Surely is this not the way every other Government initiative works. Where the beneficiary, in this case the parent, must apply themselves?