Written answers

Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Early Childhood Care Education

Photo of Seán HaugheySeán Haughey (Dublin Bay North, Fianna Fail)
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1211. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of providing an extra 1,500 extra places on the community child care subvention programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10435/16]

Photo of Katherine ZapponeKatherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) Programme provides funding to community/ not-for-profit services to enable them to provide quality childcare at reduced rates to disadvantaged and low-income working parents. Parents qualify as disadvantaged or low income on the basis of means-tested entitlements.

As part of Budget 2016, the Department announced an expansion of the CCS programme. This expansion provided for a further 3,200 (full-time equivalent) childcare places on the programme, or approximately 8,000 children based on average uptake. The expansion also saw the inclusion of private childcare providers in the CCS Programme for the first time. The Community Childcare Subvention Private (CCSP) Programme launched in March 2016.

The cost of the programme is €95 per week over a 52 week period. This gives an annual cost of €4,940 per full day care place for the full academic year (September - August). Therefore, the cost of providing an extra 1,500 extra places on the Programme would be €7,410,000.

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