Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 June 2025

Committee on Children and Equality

Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality

2:00 am

Photo of Grace BolandGrace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)
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That was my point about the eligibility. Part of it was that was only applicable to public providers but in my area, it is nearly all private providers. We do not have public providers so we were not doing anything to support existing providers. The funding was not fully drawn down. Only €23.2 million has been provided for and €25 million was not a lot to start with so we were not quite delivering on it.