Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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599. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of families who are eligible for the after school childcare scheme; the number of families currently supported by the scheme; and the number under the scheme for the past five years. [26029/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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My Department provides funding under the After School Childcare (ASCC) programme, which is administered on my Department' behalf by Pobal.

The ASCC programme was closed to new entrants on the introduction of the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) in 2019.Subsidies for after school care are available under the NCS.

With regard to the ASCC, participants’ eligibility was determined by the Department of Social Protection (DSP) and/or Solas or the local  Employment Training Board.  

The total number of households who have availed of the ASCC scheme for each year from 2016/2017 to 2020/21 are as follows:

*A ‘household’ is defined by the Parent PPSN. These numbers assume that the same parent’s PPSN was used on every application for each child in the household availing of the scheme.

Some households may appear in more than one year’s total.