Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions Dail Éireann — 2021-10-19 ============================================================ Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central What we did last year - in the funding we provided for the winter initiative, which got us through last winter - was we provided two-year funding to enable the staff to be recruited and the beds to be provided, so we would not have the annual struggle that went on between Departments in respect of getting annual allocations. That has been very effective. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2021-10-19/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:43+00:00 Sitting date: 2021-10-19