Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will not get into the reasons why people in this country had to take reductions in pay or the amount of money that the State could allocate to certain bodies. Even people at ChildVision would agree there were very difficult choices to be made. In 2014, ChildVision had its budget reduced by €25,000 and all disability agencies had similar reductions in that year. This represented half of the reduction required to meet the overall efficiency target reductions in 2014. ChildVision feared that in 2015 the reduction would be €54,000; however, the HSE undertook an evaluation of the impact of this reduction on voluntary agencies and has decided not to apply the full reduction in 2015.

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