Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 31 March 2021
705. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the costs incurred to date by his Department for the commission of the national childminding action plan. [16727/21]
View answerMy Department has incurred total costs of €24,547.78 to date in the development of the Childminding Action Plan. Of this total sum, €11,029.39 was incurred between 2016 and 2018 in the development of the report of the Working Group on Reforms and Supports for the Childminding Sector (Pathway to a Quality Support and Assurance System for Childminding: Volume 1 and Volume 2), which guided the development of the Childminding Action Plan. Of the total sum, €13,518.39 has been incurred since 2019 to date, on: the launch of the Draft Childminding Action Plan for the purpose of public consultation; the commissioning of a report on the findings of the public consultation on the Draft Childminding Action Plan; translations of documents into Irish; and the organisation of an Open Policy Debate that was held as part of the public consultation process on the Draft Childminding Action Plan.
