276 Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Finance the circumstances under which a PAYE taxpayer may qualify for tax relief or credits on expenditure on childcare; the amount of tax expenditures that have been paid by the Exchequer to employees and employers in each of the past three years for which figures are available on childcare costs; the number of employees and employers who benefited in each of these years with a breakdown, in respect of employees, of total amounts claimed by salary brackets; the upper ceilings that apply on the total amounts that can be claimed; the circumstances in which employees may qualify for tax relief or credits if their employer does not provide a childcare service and the employee pays a private childcare provider; and the steps he is taking to address this inequity in the tax system vis-a-vis small and large employers and their employees. [29767/08]

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276 Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Finance the circumstances under which a PAYE taxpayer may qualify for tax relief or credits on expenditure on childcare; the amount of tax expenditures that have been paid by the Exchequer to employees and employers in each of the past three years for which figures are available on childcare costs; the number of employees and employers who benefited in each of these years with a breakdown, in respect of employees, of total amounts claimed by salary brackets; the upper ceilings that apply on the total amounts that can be claimed; the circumstances in which employees may qualify for tax relief or credits if their employer does not provide a childcare service and the employee pays a private childcare provider; and the steps he is taking to address this inequity in the tax system vis-a-vis small and large employers and their employees. [29767/08]

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