Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the decision in the budget to allocate 11 new family resource centres around the country. In Kildare, we have two fantastic family resource centres, Newbridge and Curragh Pride. However, for a county with 220,000 people, Kildare only has the two centres. County Kerry, with a population of 147,000, has 12 centres while Donegal has nine and Mayo, seven. When compared to these counties, one can see the necessity for two new family resource centres in Kildare.

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