Ms Breda O'Donovan:

Over 60% of our annual funding comes directly through Tusla. That is our core funding, which covers our office overheads, staff salaries and enables us to provide our services. We have a service level agreement with Tusla that we complete annually, based on our operational plan and our plans for the year. We also receive funding through Pobal by way of its scheme to support national organisations, SSNO, programme for 2016 to 2019. That covers the salary for our head of support services which allows us to expand on that service. Funding also comes from our own activities and from membership fees from over 1,600 members. We obviously develop training materials, including the pre-approval training for foster carers and the foundation for fostering that is used by most Tusla areas as well as by private agencies and we have a very small stream of income from the sale of that material. That is an outline of our funding, more than 60% of which comes directly from Tusla.