Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail)
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I have one more question. I want to ask about the day centre. There are day centres in all areas, but I can only speak for Carlow. We have Aiséirí and the involvement services. I am going up to meet a group next week. Is a certain amount of funding allocated to these services every year? I understand that every year they are looking for different things and they are told that the funding is not there. I have a list which I did not bring, but I will provide it when we meet again. The service is constantly looking for funding. Is there a programme there for day services for funding or for works that need to be done, or indeed for the OT I mentioned, who St. Dympna's wanted to keep on and which it felt it needed? It boils down to staffing, recruitment and funding. I will come back and address some of these issues, but these are the queries I have for my own area that I would like some answers to.