David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If the funding is not provided, we cannot recruit. This is exactly why we are in the situation we are in. There is no clarity yet on when two of the teams that were funded will be up and running. Maybe a straight answer can be given to that question. The clock will only start to tick when the funding is made available for the other two teams. I am not the person who made the commitment. A commitment has been given time and again that these six teams will be funded and operational. They were meant to be operational last year and here we are, in 2024, still being told that two of the teams have not been funded and with no clarity on when the two teams that have been funded will be operational.