Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 4 May 2022, the anticipated breakdown of the €70 million allocation by year and by Early Learning and Childcare Investment project, namely on modernisation, new capacity and first five initiatives in tabular form. [26895/22]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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During 2021, my Department successfully secured €70m in the revised National Development Plan (NDP) allocation. This will enable significant capital investment in early learning and childcare during 2023-2025. Investment under the NDP will consist of three pillars:  (1) Modernisation, (2) New Capacity and (2) First 5 Initiatives.

It is proposed that the €70m allocation will be apportioned  across schemes as follows:

Funding for Pillar 1 amounting to €10m will be disbursed in 2023, to be followed by Pillars 2 and 3 from 2024 onwards. 

Further information on the Department’s NDP allocation and the application process will be communicated to the sector in the near future.