Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 110: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the cutback in the funding to the Lucan Disability Action Group is withdrawn. [36103/05]

Tim O'Malley (Limerick East, Progressive Democrats)
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The Tánaiste and I am aware of, and acknowledge, the services provided by Lucan Disability Action Group. The Tánaiste has met this group in recent months. The group has been in receipt of funding from FÁS for the past numbers of years under the social economy programme. I understand there is potential for the organisation to seek continuing funding from FÁS, albeit at a reduced rate, for 2006.

While Lucan Disability Action Group has not been in receipt of funding from the Health Service Executive, HSE, to date in respect of the services that they provide, these services complement the range of supports already provided by the HSE to persons with disabilities in the Lucan area. Accordingly, it is appropriate that the group should engage with the HSE with a view to entering into an agreement for the provision of services to be funded by the executive in accordance with its functions under the Health Act 2004. The group has been made aware of this.