James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is an agreement that €55.4 million will be provided in this year's budget and that it will be facilitated in a multi-annual budget. I understood the Minister to mean that CAMHS would prepare to spend that money now and the full amount could be expended after next October. Is that being communicated to the witnesses and how are they preparing to spend that money? There should be no time lag, the money will be made available from October or December, whenever money is made available, and there will not be the usual time lag in expenditure.