Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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I welcome the gentlemen and thank them for attending. What is their response to many people's concern about the policy of decongregating? Most members have received correspondence from people whose relatives are being moved out of residential care. They are concerned about how their relatives will cope in new settings when their previous settings have been their homes for much of their lives. Is this a common occurrence and do the witnesses support the policy?

The witnesses mentioned the €17 million of the €43 million that had to be provided by the HSE, leaving a shortfall of €26 million, but could they be more specific? Have voluntary bodies had to reduce services because of this shortfall and have many designated centres been closed as a result of non-compliance?