James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

At my request, representatives of my Department and the Child and Family Agency met with Respond representatives on 5 August 2015, and at that meeting, Respond indicated that due to a lack of resources it would be unable to continue to run the Cuan Álainn centre and that its board had made a decision to close the service by the end of the year unless funding was obtained. I will leave it up to people to judge the necessity to have this happen just before Christmas when, clearly, Respond's financial situation does not dictate-----

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