Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are in a perverse situation where we are in an economy at full employment and we need workers within our economy, especially in the whole digital area and yet, we have appallingly poor participation rates for one-parent families. We are rolling out high-speed broadband to every single home in the country, and as I said to the Minister of State previously, we need to look at how we can now utilise the digital hubs as people transition to high-speed broadband in their own homes. Surely there is now an opportunity there to match up the digital skills demand that is there across our economy with the digital hubs across the country to provide training, to engage with one-parent families and allow them to take up flexible employment that meets their childcare needs but also ensures that additional high-value income is coming into that house?

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