Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the dramatic reduction in services delivered by the Brothers of Charity service in Galway because of cutbacks and to implore the Minister for Health and Children to step in and prevent what most people believed they would never see – the closure of two community houses where the occupants will be transferred to already crowded homes involving over 20 people being moved out of premises they call home, where respite care services are likely to be cut dramatically at the end of the year, which will disproportionately affect the handicapped and their families of the Ballinasloe advocates in the Ballinasloe area of County Galway and where three multi-disciplinary posts are to be cut as opportunities arise. The only losers are the handicapped and their families. I implore the Taoiseach to take this seriously. It is a disaster.

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