260 Deputy Kathleen Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concerns that community childcare facilities have expressed regarding the new NCIP community childcare subvention scheme; her views on whether many community childcare facilities will experience considerable financial shortfalls under the new funding guidelines and that this could lead to the closures of some facilities; her further views on whether working parents on low incomes will be penalised through the ending of the equal opportunities childcare programme as the new NCIP subvention scheme is only available to social welfare recipients or those on family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22468/07]

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260 Deputy Kathleen Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the concerns that community childcare facilities have expressed regarding the new NCIP community childcare subvention scheme; her views on whether many community childcare facilities will experience considerable financial shortfalls under the new funding guidelines and that this could lead to the closures of some facilities; her further views on whether working parents on low incomes will be penalised through the ending of the equal opportunities childcare programme as the new NCIP subvention scheme is only available to social welfare recipients or those on family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22468/07]

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