Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of the wages part of the early childhood care and education scheme. [38494/22]

Kathleen Funchion (Carlow-Kilkenny, Sinn Fein)
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393. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost of the non-wages part of the early childhood care and education scheme. [38495/22]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 392 and 393 together.

Disaggregated information with regard to the current cost of ECCE provision across to pay and non-pay elements is not currently available.

The total cost of provision for the sector as a whole is approximately €900m across registered centred based services which breaks down to an estimated €630m for pay related costs and €270m for non-pay related costs.

Pobal, on behalf of the Department, has recently run a data gathering exercise on providers’ costs as part of the annual sector profile. This has now been completed and Pobal are in the process of checking and cleaning data to support analysis and reporting. This information will be available in the coming months and will provide more detailed insight into ECCE-related pay costs, and pay and non-pay costs generally.