Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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It is very hard for a local authority to plan out the need if it has a certain number of families living in its jurisdiction and plans for that number, and then all of a sudden a whole lot of other people come in from outside the local authority area, which is what has occurred in the Cork case. They were not people who were residing within the local authority area prior to the facility being developed. As a result you may have 40 different residential units, where previously there were fewer because that is what the local authority had seen as the number of families who needed to be accommodated. It is very difficult in that situation for a local authority to then try to provide services in there because of the expansion that has occurred. The existing facilities are not able to cope with the demands that are on the services.