Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

Does the Taoiseach appreciate how frustrating it would be for someone involved in a voluntary group to hear him say that the sector is well staffed? The Remember Us group in my area is an organisation comprising 70 families with children with intellectual disabilities. It has depended entirely on voluntarism since 1998. For the sake of one administrator, those volunteers have been burning out year by year to the point where the organisation itself is endangered.

The Taoiseach was associated with the Special Olympics organisation and knows it well. It has been left high and dry following the withdrawal of six people seconded to it from the Bank of Ireland.

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