Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The transfer to the new community services programme, CSP, model is in progress. Organisations had a window which closed a week or two ago to apply to transfer to the new model. The new model will be better with regard to how much we contribute to wages. It will be matched in a more tailored way to the needs of specific organisations. There are three strands and three levels. We got an additional €3.5 million to facilitate that in budget 2023. Some 90% of organisations in the CSP will see increased contributions from us. We should be in a position early in the new year to open a fresh call, although it will be limited, because our focus in budget 2023 was bumping up the allocation for those already in the scheme, which limits our ability to add new ones next year, but we will add some and will open a call for that.