Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 7 February 2024
451. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current percentage of ELC SAC services that are contracted to provide ECCE only and ECCE/ NCS for 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [5423/24]
View answerThe figures supplied by the scheme administrator Pobal in the table below show the percentage of services who only have an ECCE budget approval, the percentage of services who have both an ECCE and NCS budget approval and the percentage of services that only have an NCS approved budget for the programme years 2022/23 and 2023/24.
While some ELC services are only contracted with my Department for ECCE only it is possible that some may be offering childcare in a private capacity, without funding under other subsidy programmes funded by my Department.
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Programme Year |
Total number of DCEDIY contracted ELC/SAC services |
Number of ELC/SAC services that only have an ECCE budget approval |
% of ELC/SAC services |
Number of ELC/SAC services that have both an ECCE and NCS budget approval |
% of ELC/SAC services |
Number of ELC/SAC services that only have an NCS budget approval |
% of ELC/SAC services |
|
2022/23 |
4,620 |
1,026 |
22.2% |
2,946 |
63.8% |
457 |
9.9% |
|
2023/24 |
4,671 |
910 |
19.4% |
2,996 |
64.1% |
636 |
13.6% |
