Funding of more than a quarter of a billion euro is invested annually by my Department in childcare services with the greater proportion of this funding going to support three national childcare support programmes - the Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme, the Community Childcare Subvention (CCS) programme, and the Training and Employment Childcare (TEC) programmes (i.e. the Childcare Education and Training Support (CETS) programme, the After-School Childcare (ASCC) programme and the Community Employment Childcare (CEC) programme). Funding to childcare services is also made available through the annual Early Years Capital Programme.
The following table gives the information requested by the Deputy in relation to funding allocated to childcare services in Longford and Westmeath under these childcare support programmes and the Early Years Capital.
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Longford
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Westmeath
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CCS Programme
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€
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€
|
2011/2012
|
1,196,644.00
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1,685,734.00
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2012/2013
|
991,500.00
|
1,362,850.00
|
2013/2014
|
957,293.32
|
1,334,757.34
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2014/2015
|
817,277.07
|
1,195,781.06
|
CETS Programme
|
-
|
-
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2011/2012
|
483,210.00
|
352,015.00
|
2012/2013
|
391,780.00
|
376,005.00
|
2013/2014
|
383,900.00
|
376,754.00
|
2014/2015
|
362,852.00
|
282,124.27
|
ASCC Programme
|
-
|
-
|
2014/2015
|
33,160.00
|
10,031.00
|
CEC Pre-school Programme
|
-
|
-
|
2014/2015
|
116,585.00
|
114,802.00
|
CEC After-school Programme
|
-
|
-
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2014/2015
|
35,848.00
|
32,540.00
|
Capital Funding
|
-
|
-
|
2011
|
-
|
-
|
2012
|
121,847.30
|
75,073.00
|
2013
|
29,175.00
|
75,034.00
|
2014
|
14,287.00
|
90,261.00
|
2015 Strand 1
|
0.00
|
0.00
|
2015 Strand2
|
18,222.30
|
39,263.40
|
2015 Strand 3
|
34,607.70
|
24,300.00
|
2015 Strand 4
|
12,882.00
|
21,958.00
|
ECCE Funding
|
-
|
-
|
2011/2012
|
1,354,072
|
3,297,279
|
2012/2013
|
1,413,459
|
3,202,171
|
2013/2014
|
1,376,719
|
3,359,035
|
2014/2015
|
1,400,617
|
3,389,409
|