The Tánaiste mentioned in a previous response the eye-watering budget the HSE has at its disposal. Some €5 million was promised in 2023 as part of budget 2024 and was approved by the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in December 2024. This budget of €5 million related to transport initiatives, accessibility, provision of minibuses and so forth for people in the disability sector. Organisations like the Galway Centre for Independent Living, Cumas in Wexford, the Irish Wheelchair Association, Variety and the WayFinding Centre in Dublin were waiting on this funding. I am not sure whether it is the case that the €5 million has evaporated or, in the way the HSE tends to do sometimes, has been repurposed. I cannot find an answer as to what has happened to that €5 million. I do not want to have to submit freedom of information requests to the Departments of Health or Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in this regard. I was hoping the Tánaiste might be able to intervene and get answers with regard to this €5 million.

I thank the Deputy for raising this issue. I certainly do not want him, as an elected Member of this House, to have to go down the road of FOIs to try to establish information that should be freely given to him.

Working with the Minister, Deputy Foley and the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, I will undertake to make progress on this. The sum of €5 million is a lot of money in the lives of people in the country but in the context of the HSE budget, I get really frustrated when I hear about these initiatives, particularly when I know that the transport initiative would have made such a fundamental difference to the organisations and the people they serve, as the Deputy outlined. I undertake to raise the matter with the Minister and the Minister of State and get the Deputy the required information, and more importantly, see if we can find out where that €5 million went and get it allocated.