Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)

My main question relates to the Minister's plans for early and long-term family supports, which can benefit children and families, to ensure children make their way eventually into a better life, including education and employment, despite considerable levels of disadvantage. There seems to be a fair amount of funnelling into family resource centres, FRCs, at the moment. I worry about the long-term sustainability of organisations that do not receive the funding. I know of a number of good projects in Dundalk that are at that at the minute.

In writing, I have questions about a birth and tracing anomaly and about someone who was in a mother and baby home and may be excluded from a scheme on the basis of bad records. I will put those questions in writing to the Minister.