Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 January 2024
325. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of children availing of his Department’s funding programmes (details supplied) in 2022, 2023, in tabular form. [3432/24]
View answerThe table below shows the number of unique children by and across programmes that benefitted from my Department's funded schemes in the 2022 and 2023 calendar years, along with the number of unique children across the both years.
|
Programme |
Unique children 2022 |
Unique children 2023 |
Total unique children – 2022 and 2023 |
|
CCSP Saver Programme |
7,387 |
3,526 |
7,387 |
|
ECCE |
167,067 |
165,211 |
226,237 |
|
NCS |
123,932 |
182,776 |
196,606 |
|
All programmes |
246,827 |
278,221 |
331,455 |
It should be noted that:
The total number of unique children availing of CCSP over 2022 and 2023 is identical, as the CCSP scheme is a legacy scheme and as such has been closed to new applicants since the introduction of NCS in 2019.
The TEC programme closed to new applicants in 2020, final legacy payments concluded in 2022 and the programme has now expired.
