Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Sometimes what happens - the Senator probably realises this himself - and I find it particularly with regard to disability services, is that somehow or other organisations come to a notional view themselves what a cut will be. It seems very obvious to me that the background information clearly states a flat 10% saving requirement would be applied across all funding lines in 2013. The comprehensive review of expenditure nowhere references a 6.5% saving. As the Senator correctly pointed out, in 2012 savings of either 5% or 10% were required from various schemes. This would subsequently average out at 6.5% and perhaps this is from where the misinformation came. This can sometimes happen. I will most definitely bring the Senator's remarks to the Minister.