Written answers
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Department of Education and Skills
Early Childhood Care Education
Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Renua Ireland)
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400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the early childhood care and education scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35646/15]
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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Childcare providers participating in the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) are in contract with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to deliver the pre-school year free of charge to qualifying children enrolled in their service.
It is a condition of this contract that any deposit paid by a parent to a childcare provider to secure a place under the ECCE programme, where the child continues to avail of the service, must be refunded to the parent by the end of October in the year the child was enrolled.
Parents should in the first instance raise this matter with the childcare provider.
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