Mr. Pat Healy:

I can give the Deputy an overall view on the local issues. As set out in our report, the Waterford Intellectual Disability Association is a voluntary group that emerged locally. It provides residential and day care services. It is a medium-sized organisation and, therefore, it is funded by the HSE. We have set out in the note today the funding provided over the past number of years. What we were seeking to do was, I suppose, to indicate that since 2009, since the downturn commenced, all services in health have been affected to some degree. I think there has been a general attempt to minimise the impact on disability services but they have had an impact. That is reflected here. What we are trying to indicate is that while the Waterford Intellectual Disability Association has been impacted on average with the medium and larger sized organisations they have been treated fairly from a funding point of view. In the final year, 2015, as can be seen there was an 18% increase. I think that reflects some of the additional supports that they are providing but also-----