€50m HSE funding for care provider ‘falls short’

FUNDING of €50 million announced this week by the HSE for one of the country’s biggest providers of disability services would have to be at least doubled to cater for all who need the facility, say bosses.

Minister of State John Moloney announced €50m was to be provided by the HSE for Dublin-based St Michael’s House which provides services to more than 1,500 children and adults.

It has since emerged the €50m amounts to the voluntary organisation’s original tranche of money from the HSE for 2008 and still leaves the board short.