Health Services
Seanad Éireann — 2024-02-21
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Victor Boyhan (IND), Agricultural Panel

We know that EY has completed a report into St. John of God Community Services on the financial deficit and has confirmed that €27.9 million - let us be precise - is the accumulated deficit as a result of the SLA for St. John of God Community Services. I wish the Minister of State well and I wish everyone well. This is a time of working together. At the end of the day the focus here, as the Minister of State rightly said, is beyond St. John of God Community Services. There are other challenges for other people. The focus has to be the responsibility for residential support for the families who are left with people with disabilities. Many of them now rely on older parents, foster parents or family members. I thank the Minister of State and I want to work with her. I hope we can progress these matters.

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Sitting date: 2024-02-21