Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Moving from Deputy Ellis's point, CAS funding is operated by the Department of housing. It is under one regulation. That local authorities can have two different interpretations of the scheme beggars belief. Last week, the committee signed off on a detailed report on legislation. If we were able to do one thing, it would be to put together in one or two pages how to deliver the scheme if funding was available. That is what we are trying to get at. We hope to have the HSE and the county and city managers before the committee in early January. We are trying to understand from the witnesses the challenges they are experiencing and how we streamline the scheme. The witnesses would be of the opinion that CAS is operated under the same regulations, but with different interpretations by local authorities.