Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

----or Castleblayney provides phenomenal after-school services. They have been part and parcel of where the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has looked in expanding the access and inclusion model. They are also the reason we have included the alternative respite piece in the budget, whereby children can be facilitated after school as opposed to having to do an overnight. We have that in Castleblayney. They are models and we need to have a suite of measures available when it comes to respite. Children need to be supported outside of term time. They need to be supported in the evenings and in Saturday clubs. That is the whole package for families to feel supported. I will speak to Edel to make sure she speaks to the Deputy.

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