Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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231. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding allocated to individual strands of child care for counties Longford and Westmeath, for each year from 2008 to date in 2015. [35655/15]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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A number of childcare programmes are implemented by my Department to assist parents with the cost of childcare. These include:

- the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme,

- the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme,

- the Training and Employment Childcare (TEC) programmes and

- the Early Years Capital Funding programme.

The following tables give details of the total annual funding allocated to childcare providers in counties Longford and Westmeath under these various programmes since the establishment of Department of Children and Youth Affairs in June 2011 to the present date. The figures for the ECCE programme cover the period from September 2011 which is the first full year that this programme was implemented by this Department.