Irish creches have an average of 41 places for every 73 children, research shows

Eva Osborne

Creches in Ireland have an average of 41 places for every 73 children aged between zero and four, according to a study from Gamma Labs.

The research revealed that there is an average of 1.8 children for every place in a creche.

Gamma Labs, a location intelligence provider, compared the number of creche places with the number of children under the age of four across the 43 constituencies in Ireland.

The analysis also found the constituencies with the highest and lowest ratios of children per creche place, with no constituency better than Dublin Bay South’s 1.4 children per place.

This was followed by Dublin Rathdown, Galway East, Galway West, Limerick City and Sligo-Leitrim (all 1.5), who were the only other constituencies in the country with 1.5 children per place or less.

Ten constituencies had a ratio of 2 children or more per creche place, with Cork South West, and Dublin South West the least well provisioned constituencies with 2.2 children per place.

Cork North Central, Dublin Central, Dublin Mid West, Dublin West and Offaly all had ratios of 2.1, while Dublin Fingal West, Limerick County, and Louth had ratios of two children per creche space.