697. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the significant problems that currently exist in the smaller ECCE-only sessional preschools and the fact that this will be exacerbated by the new funding model; his further views on whether these small independent sessional services, the backbone of the early learning sector nationwide, will be heavily impacted by rising input costs, challenges in recruitment, high waiting lists, Government interference in terms of competition and no increase in the standard capitation level since 2018; his plans to address these significant problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14938/22]

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697. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the significant problems that currently exist in the smaller ECCE-only sessional preschools and the fact that this will be exacerbated by the new funding model; his further views on whether these small independent sessional services, the backbone of the early learning sector nationwide, will be heavily impacted by rising input costs, challenges in recruitment, high waiting lists, Government interference in terms of competition and no increase in the standard capitation level since 2018; his plans to address these significant problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14938/22]

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