Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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666. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when a payment in respect of a child care facility (details supplied) will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40054/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I believe the Deputy is referring to the Higher Capitation payment under the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) Programme. The service in question were notified that their application for the Higher Capitation payment was successful on 19th October 2016. Officials from my Department have made enquiries with Pobal, who administer payments on behalf of my Department for the ECCE Programme, and I can confirm that this service have received the appropriate payment, and are fully paid up to 20th January 2017.

The service should be advised that the information pertaining to Higher Capitation payments is displayed differently on the Programme Implementation Platform (PIP) to previous years. This information can now be found in the "Special Allocations" section on PIP.

Should this service have any further queries I would urge them to contact Pobal.