Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 June 2021
994. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children availing of the universal subsidy and the income-assessed subsidy under the national childcare scheme by age in tabular form. [31621/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe National Childcare Scheme represents the first ever statutory entitlement to financial support for childcare in Ireland. To date, over 56,000 children have benefitted from subsidies under the NCS.
Table 1 supplies data on the number of children with a universal or income assessed subsidy application who have claimed against their award for the week ending 31 May 2021. To note that there are over 42,000 submitted claims for this week but the remainder are subject to provider and/or parental verification and will be paid out on receipt of those verifications. The children’s ages were calculated as of 31 May 2021. Table 2 provides the totals for these categories.
Table 1:
Table 2:
|
Application type |
Children |
|
All income assessed children |
23,775 |
|
All universal children |
8,883 |
|
All children |
32,658 |
For completeness, the numbers of children benefitting from universal and income-based subsidies under legacy schemes are included below. Again, children’s ages have been calculated as at 31 May 2021. Table 3 provides these figures, and table 4 provides the total figures.
Table 3:
Table 4:
|
Registration type |
Children |
|
All income assessed children (CCSP) |
12,458 |
|
All universal children (CCSU) |
1,800 |
|
All children |
14,258 |
