Child Care Services Provision

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 February 2013

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Ceisteanna (746)

Paudie Coffey

Ceist:

746. Deputy Paudie Coffey asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1477 of 18 September 2012, if capital funding will be made available from her Department for 2013 to fund a maintenance programme for childcare facilities, the aim of which is to provide support to childcare settings to address medial, maintenance and renovation work or to purchase equipment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5257/13]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Children and Youth Affairs

In Budget 2012 the Government provided €6 million for remedial, maintenance, and renovation work in established childcare facilities and to assist these facilities to purchase equipment for early education and childcare services. This funding has been allocated. A capital allocation of €3.25m for childcare facilities is available to my Department in 2013, and I am currently considering how this allocation can best be utilised for the benefit of the childcare sector.