Ms Anne O'Connor:

Is that across the board or in respect of funded agencies? The Deputy mentioned Enable Ireland. It would get a budget or money from us and would determine how it needs to use that in line with us. However, if the Deputy is talking about a resource allocation model, we have looked at that in certain instances - for example, in some of our disability services and in our primary care services, looking at the population-specific needs.

As for the realities she mentions, Kildare has come from a very low base in terms of disability funding and primary care funding. We have been working with it, so it was one of the first pilot areas in terms of the in-school supports, etc. We are working with it.

As for disabilities, I emphasise that the funding of disability services is a huge challenge for us. The demand far exceeds the available resource, in terms of both early intervention but, equally, the emergency supports we talked about and emergency placements. To answer the Deputy's question briefly, we are looking at more population-specific resource allocation. It is a model we are growing, although it is not there everywhere, and we are seeking to do more and more of that in line with Sláintecare, particularly as we roll out our enhanced community care and health networks.