Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister of State know the fastest-growing area in respect of unemployment in the country? Young people who have no hope at the moment are living in the Tallaght and Walkinstown areas and this is one of the only chances they have for retraining and reskilling. I have put that to the Minister of State. Many of them come from the construction industry. The Minister of State must take on board some of these ideas. It is simply not good enough.

Will the Minister of State listen, please? Will he please look at this again? There is no logic to what the board is doing. I accept that the board is independent and so on but the Minister of State has a role. The Minister of State should be championing these areas. If it is a case of a shortage of resources in Balbriggan then the Minister of State should pull them from some other area. He should not pull them out of this area. It is unfair on the people in that area.

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