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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: €77.95 million is being allocated in Budget 2024 to youth services, an increase of €5 million, or 6.8%, on the 2023 budget. As part of this allocation, €1million is being provided to establish a new Youth Employability Initiative. The aim of the Youth Employability Initiative will be to engage and support young people aged 15 to 24 years who are not currently in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to access and meaningfully participate in the ECCE programme since it was first introduced in September 2016. A commitment to expand AIM beyond the ECCE programme was first made in the First 5 strategy. The fulfilment of this commitment is informed by an independent evaluation of AIM, which has just been completed and which I will publish in January. All participants in that evaluation...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...in 2024, building on the increases in recent years and securing the achievements into the future. The full package of current funding for youth services and programmes in my Department is €77.95 million, an increase of €5 million, or 6.8%, on the 2023 budget. €74.45m is being provided for youth services funded under the existing funding schemes. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...on the increases in recent years and securing the achievements into the future. From 2020 to Budget 2024, current Exchequer funding for youth services and programmes increased from €61.789 million to €77.95 million, a 26% increase overall. My Department provides universal funding on an annual basis to 30 national and major regional voluntary organisations through the Youth...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...responding to the unmet early learning and childcare needs of families. My Department is progressing a range of actions to ensure the supply of Early Learning and Childcare meets demand. Some €69 million has been allocated over the period 2023-2025 to the early learning and childcare sector under the revised National Development Plan (NDP). This will enable significant capital...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: In 2024, the allocation for early learning and childcare will be €1.109 billion, a €83 million (8%) increase on last year’s allocation. In 22/23 there were approximately 213,000 children in centre based early learning and childcare. This equates to approximately 150,000 families. All children in early learning and childcare supported by this Department will benefit from...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Over the past eight budgets, investment in early learning and childcare has risen from €260 million in 2015 to €1.1 billion in 2024. The First 5 investment target for 2028 was reached 5 years ahead of time in 2023. Of this investment, the following amounts constitute direct funding to providers:Core Funding - €303 millionNational Childcare Scheme (NCS) and associated...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (14 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...2024, building on the increases in recent years and securing the achievements into the future. The full package of current funding for youth services and programmes in my Department is €77.95 million, an increase of €5 million, or 6.8%, on the 2023 budget. €74.45m is being provided for youth services funded under the existing funding schemes. In addition,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since 27 June 2020, there has been very significant action taken to support the early learning and childcare (ELC) sector. The full suite of actions are set out in the First 5 Annual Implementation Reports 2020, 2021 and 2022. The recently published First 5 Implementation Plan covering the period 2023-2025 includes 125 actions for the next phase of strategy implementation, each with a defined...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...families avail of 8 hours a day. It also assumes that all Tusla regulatory requirements are met in relation to full day care services. The 2024 expenditure for ECCE is estimated to be approximately €256 million. Taking into account the assumptions outlined, it is estimated that the additional funding required to meet the additional 5 hours would be approximately €426 million....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (6 Dec 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the sector. However, based on data available to My Department, if all staff wages were included (including wages for ancillary staff) it is estimated the total annual cost of wages would be €863 million per year, of which €815m relates to directly employed staff and €48m to staff whose wages are paid through State employment and training schemes. Excluding ancillary...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...to access and meaningfully participate in the ECCE programme since it was first introduced in September 2016. A commitment to expand AIM beyond the ECCE programme was first made in the First 5 strategy. The fulfilment of this commitment was to be informed by an independent evaluation of AIM. That evaluation is now complete and it will be published before the end of this year. ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...in 2024, building on the increases in recent years and securing the achievements into the future. The full package of current funding for youth services and programmes in my Department is €77.95 million, an increase of €5 million, or 6.8%, on the 2023 budget. There is no capital allocation in 2024. €74.45m is being provided for youth services funded under the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Funding provided to ETBs to end October 2023 Laois & Offaly ETB Scheme Amount € Local Youth Club Grant Scheme (LYCGS) €82,544.00 ETB Youth Grant €128,125.00 Youth Information Centres (YIC) €0.00 Capital funding for youth services/clubs ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (17 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: This Budget continues to improve investment for early learning and childcare with funding increasing by 8% or €83 million in 2024, to €1.108 billion. Through this funding, there will be improved affordability for parents, improved availability of early learning and childcare places and additional supports for children with a disability and for children experiencing disadvantage....

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: First of all, I recognise the presence of many staff members of section 56 and 39 organisations in the Public Gallery. I also recognise that they have been joined by many service users, who will be impacted by industrial action, and their family members. I know that the threat of industrial action is not one that is made lightly by any of these incredibly dedicated staff members. The...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...ago I set out an ambition to deliver a meaningful reduction in childcare costs for families all over our country. I am pleased that today we have have been able to deliver that, with an average 25% reduction in the cost of childcare in budget 2024. This change will be effective from September of next year and will mean we have halved childcare costs in the space of two years. Across a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (11 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Budget 2023 for year two of Core Funding provides further opportunity to invest in an additional 3% growth in capacity. For Year 2 of Core Funding, the budget has increased by 11% to reach €287 million, providing a sustainable platform for investment with increases for all services. The additional funding for Core Funding Year 2 is being allocated as follows:€8.47 million...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Regulation Orders published last year were a significant milestone in efforts to improve pay in the sector. The Orders are being supported by Core Funding – which has an allocation of €259 million in its first year – to support amongst other things, improvements in staff wages, alongside a commitment to freeze parental fees and support for sustainability of services....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (3 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...investment in early learning and childcare in this upcoming Budget, that will build on the unprecedented increases in public funding for the sector secured in the last number of years, with the First 5 investment target of €1 billion by 2028 exceeded this year – five years ahead of time.Through ECCE capitation and Core Funding combined, services receive a minimum of...