Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the same matter, emergency funding was to be provided in 2017 for respite facilities and to give service users respite adjacent to their homes. Is it true that that funding, provided in 2017, is now being used to pay back money that was borrowed to provide respite services in 2016 and that there is no emergency funding available at all in 2017 for respite services? That is what is coming through to us from the HSE.

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