Childcare Services

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Questions (1184)

Kathleen Funchion

Question:

1184. 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 CCSP Saver Programme, ECCE, NCS in 2024. [12862/24]

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Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

The total number of unique children availing of my Department's funded early learning and care ECCE, NCS and CCSP Saver Programmes in the calendar year 2024 are outlined in the table below.

Programme	Number of unique children
NCS	154,959
ECCE	104,979
CCSP Saver Programme	1,894
Total	219,925

Note that the sum of the children for each programme does not add to the total because there are children who were registered with more than one programme.