Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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646. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding that has been allocated to each band of the new affordable child care scheme for 2017; and the number of children included in each band. [39127/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I presume the Deputy is referring to the expanded community childcare scheme. Funding for childcare programmes is allocated by programme, not by band. To assist the Deputy in her query I am providing the estimated cost per band for full year delivery of the extended community childcare scheme (CCS).

It is estimated that the full-year cost of extending childcare subsidy rates for band A, band AJ and band B beneficiaries of the Community Childcare Subvention Scheme, in addition to a new band D being created in respect of children who are entitled to hold the over 6 GP Visit Card, and a new universal payment (for children who are between the ages of 6 months until the age they qualify for entry into the ECCE scheme), would be approximately €110 million.