Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It goes without saying that many children are affected by the housing crisis and disability supports that are not available. Let us be clear. If we are talking about real and meaningful change in tackling child poverty, we need to look at the pathways available to many of us be they through education, apprenticeships and employment. A significant number of people are born without those supports and that scaffolding. Major early childhood supports are needed. If we do not do that, we will constantly fail a number of citizens. What we need is a multi-departmental approach to give those supports to those families and children so we can provide them with the pathways the rest of us have. Some of that is down to money, which provides opportunities that a significant number of people do not have. This is gross inequality and this is grossly wrong.

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