Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This is not being batted back and forth. There are proposals under active consideration, as I said to the Deputy, to resolve the situation. The Minister is meeting the families to resolve the issue and come up with a solution. I am not putting it on the floor of the House this morning but the intention is to get a solution and to find a resolution to the matter. The Minister is actively considering that in order that people will not be left without this project or deprived of participation in it. The Minister is actively working on ensuring there is a resolution. As I said, there is longer-term work to be done about developing more mainstream projects because we have had many projects in this country, not only in the area of disability. We have also had, for example, Atlantic Philanthropies which funded many different projects throughout the country. How we transfer those into mainstream funding is an issue that is under active consideration not only in the disability area but also with respect to projects around early childhood intervention. There is active work going on and a resolution is being sought.

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