Written answers

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Department of Health and Children

Child Care Services

9:00 pm

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 306: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the amount of grant funding allocated to a project (details supplied) in County Cork. [1383/10]

Photo of Barry AndrewsBarry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I have responsibility for the National Childcare Investment Programme 2006 - 2010 (NCIP), which includes the Community Childcare Subvention Scheme (CCSS), as well as the free Pre-School Year in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) scheme which came into effect earlier this month. I understand that the service referred to by the Deputy received approval for an NCIP capital grant amounting to €583,157 of which €291,579 has been paid to date and that this is in addition to capital grant funding amounting to €17,972 which it received under the previous investment programme, the EU co-funded Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000 - 2006 (EOCP). I also understand that the service has been approved for entry in 2010 into both the CCSS, which provides funding to community not for profit childcare services to enable them to provide childcare services at reduced rates to disadvantaged and low income families, and the ECCE scheme, which provides funding to pre-school services for the provision of free pre-school year places to children within the qualifying age range.

The service should have already received its initial 2010 ECCE payment, amounting to €11,223, from my Office and I understand that Pobal, who manage the day to day operation of the NCIP, is currently processing the service's initial 2010 CCSS payment. Following receipt of the service's January 2010 return under the CCSS and ECCE, the final amounts payable to the service in 2010 will be determined and further payments will be made as appropriate.

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