Mark Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the schedule of fees for all childcare providers operating ten or more childcare facilities and availing of Core Funding in the years 2021 to 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16322/25]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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Core Funding, which was introduced in 2022, operates alongside all other early learning and childcare programmes and constitutes additional income to services on top of these programmes, and parental fees.

Early learning and childcare organisations interacting with my Department's funding programmes must register with the Early Years Hive. To do this they must complete a once-off on-boarding process. The information collected during this process includes the organisation’s Tax Registration Number, Tax Clearance Certificate, Legal Name, Legal Structure, and details of any service within that organisation that intends to contract with Department programmes. More services within an organisation may be added after the initial on-boarding process is complete.

Please see below the list of service names for services who, on 31 March 2025, were identified as being part of an organisation with 10 or more sites and who are Partner Services.

Historical fees lists for the programme year 23/24 and current year are available on the Childcare Search section of the NCS Website for each individual early learning and childcare service. The addition of these fees lists give parents the ability to check previous years fees where there is a concern. The fees list tables include which schemes the service has contracted to and whether the service is a partner service under Core Funding. They also include details of session costs, full or part time costs where applicable and any fee extras such as after-school clubs, deposits and any relevant discounts for multiple children dependent on the service offerings. The fees lists are downloadable to pdf format.

For ease please see the following childcare search link for any services fee list .