Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 June 2021
933. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the recipients of the playing outside grant for early learning and care and school-aged childcare services by county in tabular form; the amounts allocated to each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30653/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraAs part of the Summer of Play initiative I announced recently a provision of €6 million in funding is being made to support outdoor play. One strand of this funding the Playing Outside Grant for Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School-Aged Childcare (SAC) services will provide €5.5 million in funding for services.
The objective of this grant is to support services to enhance their outdoor spaces for play and learning.
The Playing Outside Grant will be administered by Pobal on behalf of my Department and Pobal will provide further information on the application process to services, including detailed application guidelines.
The application process will open on 18 June and close on 31 August 2021. Information on the allocation of grants to individual services will be published online by Pobal in September 2021.
The grants will be based on the number of children in each service who are registered on my Departments childcare funded programmes and is as follows:
|
Number of children registered |
Amount |
|
1-49 |
€1000 |
|
50-100 |
€2000 |
|
100+ |
€2500 |
