Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask about how funding is distributed. Year on year, does the Department contact local authorities to find out the number of applications, the waiting lists, etc., and match funding accordingly, or is it just that the grant is issued, the amount is there for the grants and it is divvied up between councils with no consultation and no regard to the number of applicants, waiting lists going back years, etc.