Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Budget 2023 proposed €65 million for section 39 funding and yet I am still waiting to see any action on that funding. I met with representatives from Holy Angels in Carlow this week. As the Taoiseach knows, the funding is to support community-based voluntary organisations in the provision of disability, nursing home and hospital services across the country. I was told the funding would be there by the middle of the month. We are now in the middle the month but I spoke to the HSE last week. I rang them and they told me that they had received no funding and they were not aware of when it was coming. As the Taoiseach knows, section 39 organisations depend on this really good funding that was announced in the budget. I ask that it be given out as soon as possible.

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