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PLANS TO LOBBY TAOISEACH ABOUT GALWAY YOUNG MOTHERS PROJECT
Date Published: 29-Feb-2008
A Galway TD is planning to write to An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern about the Young Mothers in Education project in the City which has been denied funding for the coming year.
Deputy Michael D Higgins has been urging Minister for Education Mary Hanafin for some time to reconsider her decision to stop funding the scheme.
He raised the issue in the Dail again this week, but Minister Hanafin refused to back down.
The programme was set up in 1999 and since then it has supported education for more than 200 young mothers from Galway.
Deputy Higgins is very upset that funding will not be provided, and will now take this matter to the Taoiseach