Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are missing a beat here. We are too siloed in the way we think of this. We see people who are over a certain age as a caring problem, and not as an opportunity. Activation should be just as relevant to someone who has left the workforce as it is to someone who is aged 64 and wants to work for another year. It can be activation throughout the community in all sorts of unpaid positions in leisure and physical activities and all sorts of things. No Department is responsible for that at the moment.

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