Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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1111. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in receipt of the after-school childcare scheme in County Clare in each of the years from 2016 to 2021, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1654/22]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The After-School Childcare Programme  (ASCP) was administered and funded by my Department as part of the Community Childcare Subvention Programme (CCSP).  The CCSP closed to new entrants in November 2019, on the introduction of the National Childcare Scheme.

The ASCP provided up to one year of afterschool care for primary school children for certain categories of working parents/guardians and parents/guardians on certain employment programmes , based on eligibility criteria provided by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. 

Parents taking part in Community Employment programmes received funding for after school care under the Community Employment Childcare After-School Childcare (CEC AS) another subvention programme under the CCSP.  The CEC AS closed to new entrants in 2019, on the introduction of the NCS.

Table 1 below sets out outlines all children registered for ASCC for the years 2016 - 2019 inclusive.

Table 2 below sets out outlines all children registered for CEC AS for the years 2016 - 2019 inclusive.

Table 1

Table 2