Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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97. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare providers operating under the ECCE scheme from 2017 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40667/20]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The number of early learning services contracted to provide the Early Childhood Care and Education Programme (ECCE) programme per year since 2017 is as follows:

Programme Year Total Services

2017/20184248

2018/20194269

2019/20204261

For the current programme year, 2020-2021 3,966 services have contracted up to November 30th and this number will likely increase as new services open throughout this programme year.