Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 March 2025
653. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the percentage of community childcare services as a proportion of the total number of childcare services in each local authority area, in tabular form. [13452/25]
View answerEach year, Pobal compiles data from Early Learning and Care (ELC) and School Age Childcare (SAC) providers as part of the Early Years Sector Profile. This data is sourced from both the Annual Early Years Sector Profile Survey (AEYSP) and the Early Years Platform (EYP). The most recent published data available on community Service Providers is for the 2023/2024 programme year.
The table below provides figures for the total number of all services in each Local Authority area, the number of these services that are community childcare services, and the proportion of community childcare services for each area.
As can be seen from the table the local authority areas with the highest proportion of community services for the 2023/2024 programme year were Leitrim (64%), Monaghan (62%) and Donegal (45%), while the areas with the lowest proportion of community services were Kildare (4%) and Dublin – Fingal (6%).
|
Local Authority |
Number of Community Services |
Community Services as % of all Childcare Services |
Total Number of Services |
|
Carlow |
17 |
35% |
49 |
|
Cavan |
30 |
38% |
78 |
|
Clare |
34 |
24% |
143 |
|
Cork City |
47 |
28% |
168 |
|
Cork County |
87 |
24% |
358 |
|
Donegal |
74 |
45% |
166 |
|
Dublin – Dublin City |
136 |
32% |
427 |
|
Dublin – Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown |
25 |
14% |
185 |
|
Dublin - Fingal |
17 |
6% |
297 |
|
Dublin – South Dublin |
37 |
16% |
226 |
|
Galway |
78 |
25% |
309 |
|
Kerry |
52 |
35% |
149 |
|
Kildare |
8 |
4% |
184 |
|
Kilkenny |
28 |
29% |
96 |
|
Laois |
17 |
18% |
92 |
|
Leitrim |
25 |
64% |
39 |
|
Limerick |
51 |
25% |
206 |
|
Longford |
16 |
41% |
39 |
|
Louth |
19 |
18% |
107 |
|
Mayo |
53 |
40% |
133 |
|
Meath |
25 |
13% |
194 |
|
Monaghan |
40 |
62% |
65 |
|
Offaly |
15 |
21% |
71 |
|
Roscommon |
25 |
40% |
62 |
|
Sligo |
30 |
36% |
83 |
|
Tipperary |
41 |
21% |
191 |
|
Waterford |
36 |
37% |
98 |
|
Westmeath |
21 |
26% |
82 |
|
Wexford |
41 |
27% |
151 |
|
Wicklow |
22 |
13% |
166 |
The data provided above is the first of the 2023/2024 AEYSP dashboards to be published on the Early Learning and Childcare data website, which can be found under the “Service providers: overview” section. The remaining data from the 2023/24 AEYSP is currently in preparation and will be published in the coming weeks.
