Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

About half the population of County Cavan, more than 35,000 people, live in and around Cavan town and its environs. The area has a deprivation index of disadvantage. Within that, however, are areas that are designated as being very disadvantaged with a high lone parent ratio, age dependency, very high unemployment and very low levels of educational attainment. There is an urgent need to address disadvantage and deprivation in Cavan town, in particular, through youth services. We talked about the youth justice strategy last week or the week before. If we are serious about implementing that, we need to put resources into breaking the intergenerational deprivation and disadvantage in Cavan around youth. What plans are there to provide funding to support this?

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