Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Can Mr. Sharpe stay with that a second because we are getting into the weeds of it now which is where we want to go. We have plenty of time and I will let Ms Kearney in again, there is no problem.

Can Mr. Sharpe unpick what he said a little? He talks about that gap. Can he give it to me warts and all? Is he saying that national organisations, statutory organisations and Departments are not getting what the youth workers are doing on the ground or have no conceptual understanding of what it is that they are doing on the ground and therefore, there is a mismatch between policy and what they expect of youth workers and how the funding flows and what they are actually doing on the ground? He does not have to couch his language here.