My Department has historically funded a number of pre-school services in schools in areas at particular risk of disadvantage and social exclusion. However, funding of childcare, pre-schools and school-age childcare services is a matter which lies within the remit of my colleague the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration. Schools themselves are free to decide if they wish to make their facilities available for the running of early learning and care and/or school-age childcare services, and my Department understands that some schools do so. However, this would be for school management to determine, and the funding and regulation of such services would be a matter for the Department of Children, Disability, Equality and Integration.