Community welfare office closures
The closure of offices in Keadue, Ballinlough and Rooskey is revisited; Senator Kelly says satellite closures are regrettable but assures the House that officers will visit people unable to travel.
What about the closure of community welfare offices in Keadue, Ballinlough and Rooskey?
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What the people seated in the Visitors Gallery have just heard is even more reason there should be more women in politics.
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Senator Leyden raised the closure of CWO offices in Keadue, Ballinlough and Rooskey. It is regrettable. I do not believe the way forward is to close satellite clinics or community welfare offices. We have received categoric assurances from the Department of Social Protection and the Minister that where somebody feels discommoded and cannot travel to a clinic, the community welfare officer will call out to his or her house. Nobody will be left without a service.