Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 March 2015
166. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding support available to a community organisation that is considering refurbishing part of a community-owned building to make it suitable to lease to a private provider of a child care service for the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9631/15]
View answerConsiderable capital funding was made available to community and commercial mainstream childcare providers for the development and refurbishment of childcare facilities under the National Childcare Investment Programme (NCIP) 2006-2010, and previously under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme (EOCP). Because of the economic situation, a review of capital expenditure was undertaken in 2009 and following this a decision was taken not to approve any further capital grant applications under the NCIP programme.
There is currently no funding available to my Department to provide for developments such as that outlined by the Deputy.
