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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (26 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...represent value for money for taxpayers, and are managed and allocated in accordance with robust and appropriate procedures. The Deputy will be aware that investment in childcare has increased by an unprecedented 117% over the last four budgets, now totalling €575 million per year. Community services access much of this growing investment. Turnover for many services has...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (26 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...value for money for taxpayers, and are managed and allocated in accordance with robust and appropriate procedures. The Deputy will be aware that investment in childcare has increased by an unprecedented 117% over the last four budgets, now totalling €575 million per year. Community services access much of this growing investment. Turnover for many services has increased...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (26 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...value for money for taxpayers, and are managed and allocated in accordance with robust and appropriate procedures. The Deputy will be aware that investment in childcare has increased by an unprecedented 117% over the last four budgets, now totalling €575 million per year. Community services access much of this growing investment. Turnover for many services has increased...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (12 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...or advice, or if they believe a sustainability issue arises. The Deputy will be aware that investment in childcare has increased by an unprecedented 117% over the last four budgets, now totalling €575 million per year. Community services access much of this growing investment. Turnover for many services has increased quite substantially (given that the number of servicers...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Service 2019
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (6 Mar 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I am pleased to discuss my Department’s Revised Estimate for 2019 which provides for a taxpayers’ investment of €1.5 billion, which represents an increase of just under €107 million, or 8%, on the allocation for 2018, following the Supplementary Estimate in December. As a result, my Department will spend €1.478 billion in current expenditure and €32...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (26 Feb 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...funding is used for the purposes it was intended. The Deputy will be aware that investment in childcare has increased by an unprecedented 117% over the last four budgets, now totalling €575 million per year. Community services access much of this growing investment. Turnover for many services has increased quite substantially - given that the number of servicers operating has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Costs (19 Feb 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...for Children and Youth Affairs have seen an unprecedented increase in investment in key early learning and care, ELC, and school age childcare, SAC, areas, with annual investment rising to €574 million, a 117% increase since 2015. The increases have allowed us to introduce measures designed to be a major step towards accessible, affordable and quality ELC and SAC after decades of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (19 Feb 2019)

Katherine Zappone: My policy priorities in relation to supporting the provision of early learning and care is articulated in First 5, Ireland’s first ever whole-of-Government strategy to improve the lives of babies, young children and their families. This 10-year strategy sets out a roadmap for development and investment over the next decade and builds on recent and very substantial developments in early...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (19 Feb 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ... Children Enrolled Cork 1 0 Dublin 2 24 Grand Total 3 24 2018 Closure Notifications County Services No of Children Enrolled Carlow 1 0 Clare 2 1 Cork 13 74 Donegal 3 11 Dublin 15 56 Galway 9 0 Kerry 3 0 Kildare 4 37 Kilkenny 1 0 Laois 2 0 Limerick 1 0 Louth 4 1 Mayo 2 32 Meath 5 75 Tipperary 5 43 Wexford 4 1 Wicklow 4 20 Grand Total 78 351 It is important...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Eligibility (13 Feb 2019)

Katherine Zappone: .... School age childcare services will continue to be eligible for the existing funding schemes (CCSP, TEC, etc) until the Affordable Childcare Scheme will replace them. Capital funding of €1 million will also be made available to support the expansion of an existing school age childcare service or to set up a new school age childcare facility where demand is currently not being...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Budgets (7 Feb 2019)

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 239 and 240 together. The Revised Estimates for Public Services includes a total allocation of €32 million in capital funding for my Department and its Agencies in 2019. The funding provision is apportioned across two Programme areas of the Department's Vote as set out in the following table: Programme Area Funding Allocation Programme Subhead...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...Democratic Programme of the First Dáil by supporting the development of all children and by making provision for their physical, mental and spiritual well-being, to alleviate poverty; — welcomes the overall increase of €107 million (8 per cent) over 2018 in the 2019 vote of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs; — welcomes the increased investment in...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...is reflected in the countermotion. We must invest if we want to deliver for our children. In the case of my Department, the gross funding being made available in 2019 is a little over €1.5 billion. The Deputy suggested I would refer to that. Many Deputies will be aware of our radical new approach to childcare. A 117% increase in investment since 2015 has seen the families of...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (17 Jan 2019)

Katherine Zappone: ...existing childcare provision, in general, meets current needs nationwide in terms of capacity whilst recognising that small pockets of undersupply may exist within this. The report outlines a 5% vacancy rate as a percentage of children enrolled in County Meath, ie. 6,996 children enrolled in registered services with 355 vacant childcare places. It also identifies waiting lists...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (18 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: .... The number of services is remaining relatively the same, so this increased investment should be seen in staff working conditions. The 7% increase in ECCE capitation this September and the €55 million in Programme Support Payments which will, by the end of next year, have been paid to services over a three year period, are particular features of the increased investment. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (13 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: ...and I have introduced initiatives to improve working conditions. These include, for example, a 7% increase in the early childhood care and education, ECCE, scheme capitation from September and €55 million to support services with their administrative role over a three-year period. The model of service provision is divided between three quarters private, for profit, and one...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Early Years Sector (13 Dec 2018)

Katherine Zappone: ...of staff. These have included an increase to ECCE capitation of 7% intended to improve pay rates in the sector. Furthermore, by the end of 2019, my Department will have paid more than €55 million to childcare providers in recognition of the administrative role they play in delivering the current childcare schemes. Finally, First 5, a whole-of-Government ten year strategy for...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Irish Language (6 Nov 2018)

Katherine Zappone: I propose to take Questions Nos. 983 and 985 together. The forthcoming National Early Years Strategy will clarify the Government’s intentions regarding support of the Irish language in pre-schools, and complement the aims of the 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language (2010-30). My department is represented on the Action Plan 2018 - 2022 inter-departmental working group, and has...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jul 2018)

Katherine Zappone: ...(Fiscal Monitor) for June 2018, as published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, shows that the capital expenditure outlays by my Department are below the expenditure profile by €5 million. The Deputy might note that the level of underspend at this time specifically relates to timing factors associated with the drawdown of funds across a number of programme areas and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (21 Feb 2018)

Katherine Zappone: The budget allocated to Early Years and School Age Childcare Capital programmes for 2018 is €6.86 million. The programmes will operate under the following five strands: Early Years Care and Education Strand 1: New or expanding services; €50k maximum grant size Strand 2: Essential maintenance; €20k maximum grant size Strand 3: Natural outdoor play area; €7k maximum...