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The Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth Affairs, Anne Rabbitte, at the openin gof Moorehaven in Cashel with, left, Cllr Roger Kennedy and Deputy Jackie Cahill
The Moorehaven Day Service Centre in Cashel was officially opened this Tuesday by the Minister for Disabilities, Anne Rabbitte.
Minister Rabbitte was joined at the ceremony by her Fianna Fáil colleague Deputy Jackie Cahill and the Cathaoirleach of Tipperary County Council, Cllr Roger Kennedy.
Deputy Cahill and Cllr Kennedy, who is a director of Moorehaven, have been working closely with Minister Rabbitte since she took office as Minister for Disability.
The Minister first met the management, directors, staff, service users and their families in Moorehaven in June 2021, when Cllr Kennedy and Deputy Cahill first started making the case to her for funding for residential respite services for the county.
At the official opening in Moorehaven, Minister Rabbitte announced that she will be providing €500,000 to Moorehaven for the full operation of respite services in county Tipperary.
Responding, Deputy Cahill said that he was delighted that Minister Rabbitte accepted his invitation to visit Cashel and to officially open the bright, warm and welcoming centre that Moorehaven operaties in Cashel for the local people who attend there.
“This is the second official engagement that Minister Rabbitte has had with the people of Moorehaven, and Cllr Kennedy, as a director of Moorehaven, has been instrumental in ensuring that they have received this attention from Government.
The Thurles-based TD said that he was pleased to welcome the commitment from Minister Rabbitte that she will be allocating €500,000 from her budget to Moorehaven, so that they can commence operating their respite services here in Tipperary.
Cllr Kennedy, of Tipperary added that the funding was a major boost for the service users, their families and all of in Moorehaven.
“We have the building already in place to offer the residential respite, which will give both service users and their families the rest they need. Since we secured a building for these services, the last piece of the jigsaw was the funding from the HSE and Minister Rabbitte has delivered that. I would like to thank both Minister Rabbitte and Deputy Cahill for the work and commitment in delivering this,” he said.
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