Declan Breathnach (Louth, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes. It relates to a community being denuded of its services. In the programme for Government, we and the Taoiseach committed to providing both economic and social services as the economy improved, but the Government is taking services away from people who require them. The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Doherty, clearly said on local radio that it was a temporary measure and that the service would reopen. I ask her to indicate that is what will happen because it is not what is being said by people in the social welfare offices in the region.

See this speech in context