Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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313. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a breakdown of the €316.6 million provided for early childhood care and education programme and access and inclusion model preschools in line B.3 of the revised estimate for 2022, including ECCE pay and ECCE non-pay, access and inclusion model and so on. [27085/22]

Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of childcare providers who have signed up to the early childhood care and education scheme but who choose not to accept the affordable childcare scheme; the steps that his Department is taking to deal with the numbers of providers who will not accept the affordable childcare payments; the assistance that is available for parents of children in such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27175/22]