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A Fianna Fail TD has slammed the new way of funding community childcare places as "seriously flawed" and "reinforcing welfare dependency". Fianna Fail TD Chris Andrews said the changes will force low income parents to stop working as they won't be able to afford to pay for creche places if their income exceeds the new limits. The creche places of up to 10,000 children in community non-for-profit childcare facilities will be affected, according to the early childhood group IPPA, which represents 2,500 creches and playgroups. The children of low income working parents will be particularly badly affected, according to Mr Andrews. "What it's doing is ghettoising and reinforcing welfare dependency. It's going to actually stop people moving out of social welfare dependency. It's going to reduce peoples' choices where both are working," said the Dublin South-East TD. Thousands of parents in receipt of subsidised childcare places face the possibility of losing them next year, when the subsidy will be paid instead to parents on full social welfare payments, or those in receipt of Family Income Supplement. This will push up the price of childcare dramatically for low to middle income parents, earning just enough to put them over the income threshold. "The objective is right and there does need to be tightening up in the way the money is spent. But they are using a method that is seriously flawed," according to Mr Andrews. "It's a really blunt form of means testing," he added. Under the new Community Childcare Subvention Scheme (CCSS), parents in receipt of social welfare will receive an €80 weekly subvention for full day-care, while parents in receipt of the Family Income Supplement will receive a €30 weekly subvention.
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