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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: ...are 10% less likely to take up the free two-year ECCE scheme than children from the settled community. Those kids on day one of junior infants are immediately at an educational disadvantage and they are trying to catch up from day one. We are targeting those early years, but that also includes school-age childcare. It is to recognise that the education element here is so important....
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Early Childhood Care and Education
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 89. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects to announce further details of the proposed equal participation model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19261/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...at the Minister's previous answer. Teachers are very protective of their classrooms: "If they come into mine, they better not mess up the copies or anything else." As regards the fourth strand of the together for better programme, we have ECCE, the access and inclusion model and the national childcare scheme. The first three I understand quite well, but we have a proposed equal...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: In budget 2024, I secured €4.5 million to commence the initial roll-out of equal start from September of this year. That allocation is equivalent to €13.5 million in a full year, and I will be very pleased to be able to fully announce equal start in May of this year. Equal start is a funding model and set of universal and targeted measures to support access to, and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I believe passionately in this and that we should not confuse equality of outcome with the equality of opportunity we often get in a meritocracy, whereby you start from 50 m and I start from 100 m, we say the finish line is in the same place and we say, "Was it not great we all got to run in the same race?" That is not really how society works. Well, it is how society works but it is not...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: There will be a range of universal and targeted supports, just like there are for AIM. There will be universal supports as regards better training for everybody in settings in terms of social inclusion and how to act on that within the particular setting. Better information will be provided to all parents so they understand what the supports available to them are. Not all parents know...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Additional staff and additional training for existing staff make all sorts of sense to me. The Minister will know that better informing parents is difficult. He talks about targeting that group. Trying to get people to actually interact with the services will be difficult. Will the Minister explain to me a little more about, as I said, the basic nuts and bolts? If I understand this...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Could I get a bit more detail? I think we all welcome any moves as regards AIMS, and I really like the idea of targeted supports, but the problem is that we are all aware of desperate sets of circumstances. We all know that we need to see full wraparound family supports and full interventions. In an awful lot of cases we deal with issues where kids have been left in the most chaotic of...