Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 26 July 2017
1459. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount that was spent in 2015 and 2016 and the projected spend for 2017 on subsidies to private operators of child care. [36367/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe following amounts were paid to private providers for the Early Childhood Care and Education Programme (ECCE), the Community Childcare Subvention Programmes (CCS/P) and the Training and Education Childcare Programmes (TEC)
- €13,788,619 in 2015 (not including ECCE – see note below)
- €100,051,282 in 2016
- €137,277,614 in 2017 to date.
These sums cover payments for subsidies and capital monies. The ECCE payments were paid through an older system in 2015 and it is not possible to disaggregate community and private providers. The total paid to ECCE in 2015 was €168,539,884.
The projected spend to year end for the subsidised programmes is approximately €156m. As this consists almost in its entirety of new child registrations for the 17/18 cycle, it is not possible at this stage to meaningfully predict payments between private and community providers, particularly as this figure includes an estimated €50m allocated towards the expanded childcare subventions under CCS and TEC and the entirely new CCS universal subvention which will be available to community and private providers.
