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

I ask that the huge work done by the like of Muirhevnamore community centre on the basis of being in an area of disadvantage be taken into account. We all know that, with community centres, you can be between timelines when it comes to anchor tenancies and so on. I know some of that is happening at the moment which has probably added pressures. I also know work is being done with SOLAS and the LMETB to rectify these and provide an added service. It is a service where there is a lot more work and throughput on the basis of the shared space extension, which was named after a friend of mine, Kevin Mulgrew, due to the huge work he carried out in that community and the wider area of Dundalk.

I also previously asked the Minister of State about Blackrock community centre and that his Department engage with it. It previously failed on the basis of displacement, but it said the sort of jobs it was looking at could not be dealt with by Tús and CE. While it might not be in the same sort of area as Muirhevnamore, it provides a huge service and we should look at facilitating it.

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