Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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380. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to revert to this Deputy on (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43030/15]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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As I stated in my reply to the Deputy's previous question, the Programmes Implementation Platform (PIP), which was introduced by my Department and launched in September 2014, provides for childcare providers to submit applications for childcare funding through an online facility.

For the purposes of further clarification, when a parent decides to register a child for participation in a childcare programme, the childcare provider in question gives the parent a Child Registration Form to fill out. In the case of the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme, the parent will supply their own full name, the child’s full name, PPSN details, date of birth, gender, the number of days the child will attend for and the starting and end dates of the child’s participation in the programme. The childcare provider uses the information on the completed form to register the child on PIP. Once the child has been entered on PIP, the childcare provider must destroy the form in order to comply with data protection requirements.

Once the child has been registered on PIP, a Parental DeclarationFormis printed and signed by both the parent and childcare provider. A copy is given to the parent and the original signed Parent Declaration Form is retained by the childcare provider for inspection during compliance visits, which are undertaken by Pobal on my Department's behalf.