Ms Una Nagle:

The ceiling is too low given the additional needs of people with disabilities. It is just over €90,000 per unit. The staff support area is not always reckoned to be a unit. We recently bought a four-bedroom house in advance. Since there was a delay, we could not get the CAS funding in advance. The house cost us €500,000 but the maximum we could draw down was €360,000. The authorities do not take in the additional environmental needs and the sensory needs of the residents. I advocate a disability arm with respect to CAS funding so it can examine this in depth and come up with an appropriate mechanism and level of funding.