Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I want to go back to something that Deputy McAuliffe said earlier in respect of having an overview. Some communities are very advantaged. There have good resources and they are established communities. Very often I find that in new communities, people do not know one another. Very disadvantaged communities do not have the same access to resources. There are often issues relating to matching funding, which can make all the difference in terms of being able to avail of grants, for example. Having an overview of that, whereby it can be seen that a particular organisation has multiple opportunities for matching funding, for example, and can apply for multiple grants, is important. That information is lost by not having that overview. Does Ms Hurley accept that is a missing piece?