RAPID childcare centre job losses
John Halligan raised threatened job losses and the possible abandonment of a low-cost childcare centre in a Waterford RAPID area, arguing that the Government was withdrawing support from disadvantaged communities. The Taoiseach offered to obtain a response, amid continuing disorder and protests.
These are RAPID areas to which the Government committed its support. The Government is abandoning them all over the country.
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Perhaps if Deputy Halligan wants to give me the details of the centre in Waterford, which I am not acquainted with,-----
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The Government has no interest in them.
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The same is happening everywhere in the country.
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We are not talking about giving away huge amounts of money.
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The Government is decimating the community.
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Seven or eight jobs will go and children will be abandoned in a RAPID area.
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The Taoiseach should ask his backbenchers.
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Would the Deputies ever stay quiet, please, until the Taoiseach has answered the question?
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It is a RAPID area that the Government claimed it would support. This is outrageous.
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I would be happy to have a response provided for Deputy Halligan and Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, if they wish.
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The health committee was very quiet on the last question.
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We brought about the change, Finian.
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I do not think the Government understands what a RAPID area is. It has given up on the less well-off in society. That is what has happened. There is no point in passing smart remarks across the floor.
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People are losing their jobs all over the country in other RAPID areas that the Government is supposed to be supporting.