Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The documentation notes a reduction of €8.5 million. What impact will that have with regard to the budget? The Minister mentioned the SICAP and obviously, there is a small cost-of-living increase. If we were to do the full cost-of-living increase, what increase would be required? Do we have that figure?

I welcome the increase in funding to the Charities Regulator, which will be important. The community centre investment fund was mentioned earlier. It is a really good scheme for which we have been calling for a very long time. I welcome the increase in the funding. A figure of €72 million was sought originally for which people put in the application. It is good to see that we can draw that down over the next few years to get the important work done.