Dáil debates
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
12:40 pm
To be fair to the HSE, it has enormous challenges in budgets, but it should be working with these organisations. The consultant, Professor Seamus O'Reilly, in our city, has been leading the charge for these centres. As a consultant and a clinician, he sees the value of organisations such as ARC in that context and advocates very strongly for them. By the way, the €3 million has to be additional to whatever existing funding CHOs in different parts of the country are allocating to these organisations. We do not want it to replace existing local arrangements and provision. The HSE, to be fair, has provided funding to quite a few organisations in certain CHOs. I will ask the Minister to look at the situation with Dóchas Offaly in light of the Deputy raising it here.
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