Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

There is a commitment in the programme for Government to tackle child poverty by increasing community based early intervention programmes. With one hour's notice the five full-time employees in Brookfield Youth and Community Centre, which provides precisely those vital services to the local community, were told last Friday that they were being made redundant and the not-for-profit company that runs the centre was closing and that the services would be gone.

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