Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

After meeting me on Friday last, the people at Lisheens House are well aware of what it is necessary for them to do. They began an engagement with the mental health side, which they did not see through. They then went over to the primary care side to seek funding in respect of counselling. Again, there was an issue regarding the amount and availability of information they were supplying to the HSE. I stand over the HSE's right to obtain a clinical evaluation of any service that is provided, be it in mental, physical or any other health area. Lisheens House accepts that in full and is now going to have its service's evaluated. It will also have the clinical side evaluated. We cannot just distribute money, regardless of whether it is in my constituency or any other. There is no facility whereby we can just distribute money to an organisation based on someone saying it is a great organisation and doing well.