Written answers
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
Department of Children and Youth Affairs
After-School Support Services
Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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722. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide an update on the number of children availing of the after school child care initiative with a breakdown on a county basis, including the number of children availing of the initiative in Dublin 3, 5, 13 and 17. [33334/14]
James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The After-School Child Care (ASCC) programme was introduced in October 2013 specifically to provide after-school care for primary school children for certain categories of working parents for a once-off period of 52 weeks.
A table giving the uptake figures for each City/County Childcare Committee region is below. Figures are not available separately for Dublin postal district areas.
After-School Child Care Programme
Figures for uptake in each City/County Childcare Committee Region
CCC | Children under ASCC |
---|---|
Carlow | 1 |
Cork County | 1 |
Clare | 3 |
Cavan | 3 |
Cork City | 4 |
Donegal | 8 |
DunLaoghaire | 1 |
Dublin South | 3 |
Dublin City | 6 |
Fingal | 7 |
Galway | 4 |
Kildare | 11 |
Kilkenny | 1 |
Kerry | 2 |
Laois | 2 |
Leitrim | 0 |
Limerick | 9 |
Longford | 0 |
Louth | 18 |
Mayo | 1 |
Meath | 2 |
Monaghan | 1 |
North Tipp | 1 |
Offaly | 3 |
Roscommon | 0 |
Sligo | 4 |
South Tipp | 4 |
Waterford | 1 |
Westmeath | 1 |
Wexford | 4 |
Wicklow | 0 |
Total Children | 106 |
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