Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is under way. My wife is on the board now, so I am kept abreast of exactly what is happening in the centre. The board is brilliant and has done incredible work. The fund has been important to the centre.

I welcome that we are considering the fund’s future and that it will not just be a one-off. As the Minister said, we do not just do our houses up once and then leave them for 30 or 40 years. We continuously upgrade our houses and try to keep on top of the maintenance work. Many centres missed out on the last tranche of funding, so I will certainly be telling centres in my constituency to get their applications ready and the necessary work in place so that they know what they are doing. I hope that, in the next budgetary process, we get those projects included that were not included in the previous tranche of funding.

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