Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I welcome this process and see it as being part of an ongoing process of communication with the HSE and Dr. Morgan and the team so I welcome most of the responses. It gives rise to further questions but we will interrogate them in due course. The €7.8 million is still hanging out there for me. I received a reply to a parliamentary question dated 22 December from Dr. Morgan in respect of the breakdown of the €7.8 million. I use CHO 4 because it is the area with which I am most familiar but it is representative of many CHOs. He stated that assessments of need completed went from 29 in September 2020 to 69 in October and 257 in November. This is a massive jump. What I wanted to find out was the breakdown of the costs. How was that €7.8 million distributed? I did not get a sufficient answer to that answer. I ask him to revisit Question No. 422 of 10 December 2020, and come back to me again.