Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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555. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount allocated and drawn down in respect of the learner fund in 2016 and 2017, by county. [3307/18]

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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557. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount allocated to each county under learner funds 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. [3309/18]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 555 and 557 together.

As the funding was administered, in part, through the County and City Childcare Committees (CCCs), I am unable to provide a county by county breakdown of funding. However, funding has always been offered on a national level and not on a county by county basis.  The allocation of funding to each county area is a direct reflection of the uptake of the opportunity offered through the Learner Fund and the demand for further education and training that existed in the Early Years sector in that area at the time. My Department placed no restrictions on the share of the available funding that could be accessed through each CCC.

The county by county breakdown is outlined in the following table;