Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 July 2023
1089. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to detail, in tabular form, the number of supported childcare spaces and the capital budget for the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown area for the years 2016 to 1 June 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37124/23]
View answerMy Department provides funding through three major programmes, the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme, including the Access and Inclusion Model (AIM), the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) and the new Core Funding scheme.
The number of children that have benefited from DCEDIY schemes in the programme years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown are outlined in the table below:
|
- |
Programme call 2021/22 |
Programme call 2022/23 |
|
CCSP Saver Programme |
70 |
9 |
|
ECCE |
4,437 |
4,314 |
|
NCS Income Assessed |
737 |
1,047 |
|
NCS Sponsor |
79 |
90 |
|
NCS Universal |
2,090 |
5,860 |
Since 2015 my Department has administered an annual capital funding programme, under which providers are invited to apply for capital funding to increase the capacity of their services, and to maintain and improve their services. The table below shows capital funding received by providers in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown for the period 2016 to 1 June 2023:
|
- |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
|
Building Blocks Modernisation Grant - Green |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€101,018 |
|
Building Blocks Modernisation Grant - Retrofit |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€287,385 |
|
Covid-19 Capital Grant 2020 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€498,000 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Covid-19 Reopening Support Payments |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€542,000 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2015 Strand 2 |
€4,630 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2015 Strand 4 |
€9,380 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2016 |
€121,536 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2017 Strand 1 |
€0 |
€72,429 |
€5,334 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2017 Strand 2 |
€0 |
€19,100 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2017 Strand 3 |
€0 |
€54,213 |
€1,874 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2018 Strand 1 |
€0 |
€0 |
€30,873 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2018 Strand 2 |
€0 |
€0 |
€12,183 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Early Years Capital 2018 Strand 3 |
€0 |
€0 |
€12,128 |
€700 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Fire Safety Capital Grant 2021 for Early Learning and Care & School Age Childcare Services |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€144,422 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Grant Programme for Improved Ventilation 2021 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€150,000 |
€129,000 |
€0 |
|
School Age Childcare 2019 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€30,258 |
€1,302 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
School Aged Childcare 2017 Strand A |
€0 |
€20,000 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
School Aged Childcare 2017 Strand B |
€0 |
€8,955 |
€995 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
School Aged Childcare 2017 Strand C |
€0 |
€31,394 |
€1,318 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
€0 |
|
Grand Total |
€135,546 |
€206,091 |
€64,705 |
€30,958 |
€1,041,302 |
€294,422 |
€129,000 |
€388,403 |
