Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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1116. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter regarding an application by a crèche (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46498/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Pobal have looked at the application, appraisal and appeal for this service. The service applied for Strand A under School Aged Capital.

Strand A was for completely new after schools services. The appraiser looked at the application with this in mind, the application stated that the service currently runs an after-school and breakfast club and provides transport.

It was deemed that, even though the service is going to now use a log cabin for the purposes of after-school, the fact that the current after-school service would be moving to the cabin, no new service was being created as the original one was closing down and would now be used for full day care children.

The appeals reviewer agreed with this assessment. This logic has been applied throughout the SAC capital grant this year, where an existing service was being closed to open another service it was deemed not to be “new” as no new places were created, this application would have been eligible for Strand B the expansion of an existing SAC service.