Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Two organisations providing services for people who are deaf and people who have autism receive in excess of €8 million, and I am sure there would be many others if I added them up. Why are they reduced to applying for SSNO funding to provide staff for advocacy services when they are in receipt of so much under sections 38 and 39? I do not want to diminish the impact on, and the outcry over, the 26 groups that lost their funding from Pobal last week. Thankfully, that has been reinstated. Why is a group such as Irish Autism Action reduced to looking for funding under the SSNO to provide staff to man their offices when it is in receipt of €8 million in section 38 funding?