Dr. Anne-Marie Brooks:

I do not know the details of the particular centre the Deputy spoke about. However, on the wider funding model, and I do not know whether the service is participating in core funding, there have been very substantial increases to individual services through core funding. This year, in total, €287 million is being allocated across the sector. That will increase again by 15% from the third programme year come September. In addition to that allocation, we are also seeing quite substantial increases, as reflected earlier, in the number of parents and children accessing services, which adds to and improves sustainability of services through the national childcare scheme and the ECCE programme. I would be surprised if the service had not seen any increase in funding over the past number of years, given the scale of funding we are aware of that has gone into individual services, but I do not know the details that the Deputy spoke about-----