Charlie O'Connor (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 406: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the average cost of new child care places funded by his Department. [11987/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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As the Deputy may be aware, the equal opportunities child care programme provides, inter alia, capital and staffing funding to enhance existing and to create new child care places in services throughout the country. Funding for staffing costs under the EOCP is made available to child care services which provide child care for very disadvantaged parents. Overall, the programme aims to increase the supply of centre-based child care places by more than 31,000 by 2007. On the basis of funding committed to date, the average cost of creating a new child care place under the programme is estimated to be about €8,400 per child care place.