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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I am sorry. I believed it was 250.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: It was 250 a minute ago. They are twice as expensive.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I asked for a table before the break regarding the 3,000 or 4,500 service providers. When we get it, could it start with the providers receiving the largest amounts first? For example, if Deputy Aylward was getting an amount, I was getting less than him and another Deputy was getting even less, could we have it in that order? In the next column, could the table show the amount of money...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Then Ms McNally chose not to correct Deputy Cassells when he used the word "cannibalised".
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Let us say that someone cannot get his or her baby into a facility at six months. Should that person phone the Department and say that nowhere will take the baby because everywhere is full?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is that a good thing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: I would not think it was a good thing to have institutionalised care of children. We do not have a great history of that in this country.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is there a limit? Can services just keep growing? I am concerned about the economies of scale being built into the system. Large providers will be able to operate at a much greater scale, have better buying power when it comes to food, dodies, shampoo, toilet roll and so on, and generally work out as being cheaper, which will knock out the smaller provider. Will we end up with a monopoly...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: In terms of retrospectively changing the rules, will this take into consideration those childcare providers which have their business models based on an increasing trajectory? For example, a provider may have a facility for 4,000 children in a warehouse outside Dublin. How can the Department change the goalposts for a large company investing in facilities? At what point is it all about the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is there no issue if the Department says “No” after a year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Can the Department do that unilaterally every year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Is it only a year's contract and it is rolling?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: Earlier on some surprise was expressed at the low uptake of ECCE funding. In the April cohort, it was half the expected uptake. Is this where people would start their child in the ECCE scheme because they came of age in April? What is meant by the three points, January, April and September?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is my point. Why did the Department not see that coming?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: No parent would ever start their child for six weeks.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is in place now.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: The universal component of the community childcare subvention programme values each child at €1,040 per year. Has the Department any figures to show how many from the cohort of children between six months and three years of age are in that scheme? My understanding is that many crèches, especially in Dublin, did not take on children who were on that scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (13 Jun 2019) Kate O'Connell: What is the total number of children in childcare?