Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Part of the organisational review I spoke about earlier - the three pieces of work - is to look at the overall infrastructure, whether there are elements of duplication and how we can make the system better and more streamlined. Part of that work is ongoing and, in fairness, my Department identified that there are issues in that regard.

As regards the initial setting up in the HIVE, once a provider is established, they are established. There was a big piece of work to be done this year for many of them which will not need to be replicated because we have the system in place, but that is not to take from their distress. I have friends who are service providers who have been texting me to express their anger and frustration. I acknowledge the issues. Where they come up again I will be happy to do whatever we can to support Pobal while recognising that there are wider organisational issues that we are hoping to address through the current review.

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