Windmill Therapeutic and Training Unit, a section 39 service, provides much-needed day services to 59 users across three sites in Wexford town. Windmill has requested immediate additional funds. This week I want to acknowledge that it has received a commitment of €75,000. However, this falls more than €200,000 short of the required funds. It wrote to all its service users through the board of management. The 59 families in question have been informed that Windmill is now in a staffing crisis. This has significant negative implications which will result in a reduction in the number of days on which it can provide a service. The service will have no option but to cease providing transport to service users. Windmill's staff and service users have asked me to ask the Taoiseach for a clear commitment that funds will be allocated from the special health fund that can be used for transport because this issue is not going away.

The €100 million fund, as the Deputy is aware, is being allocated to section 39 organisations and others, including nursing homes, specifically to address the issues the Deputy has just raised. It is for additional costs, for example, driving patients from home to clinical settings. I cannot comment on the individual organisation just yet. If Deputy Murphy sends me a note on it, I will ask the Department and the HSE to take a look. On the broader question of whether the €100 million fund be used for issues such as this, that is exactly what it is intended for.