Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 165: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of community based public child care facilities in place in County Mayo; the number of children they cater to; and the number of such facilities which have closed down in County Mayo in each of the past five years. [39773/06]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, I have responsibility for the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 (EOCP) and the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006-2010 (NCIP), which are being implemented by the Office of the Minister for Children.

The EOCP is supporting 50 community based projects in County Mayo and the funding allocated is expected, when fully drawn down, to create 963 new childcare places and support or enhance 814 existing places. A comprehensive list of the projects funded and childcare places created or supported under the EOCP in County Mayo to end of 2005, including community based facilities, is now available on the Departments' website at http://www.dohc.ie/publications/ developing

Childcare services in County Mayo can also avail of a wide range of training and other quality enhancing initiatives offered by the Mayo County Childcare Committee which is funded under the EOCP.