Wednesday, October 20, 2010

PRESS STATEMENT - FÁS to close Cabra Training Centre next month


Sinn Féin Dublin Central Representative and Vice President Mary Lou McDonald has described FÁS’s decision to close it’s Cabra Training Centre at the end of November as unjustifiable, and she has called on the Minister for Education and Skills to immediately intervene to ensure FÁS reverses it’s decision. 

Ms McDonald added: “At a time when the government's strategy should be to increase its investment in training and up-skilling of workers it is unjustifiable that FÁS has decided to shut down it’s only Training Centre between Dublin 1 and Navan town. I challenge FÁS Director General Paul O’Toole to come out this evening and justify reducing desperately needed training places when nearly half a million people are unemployed. This decision needs to be reversed and Mary Coughlan as the Minister responsible for FÁS needs to make it her business to do so.

“Hundreds of current students who attend day and night courses at the Centre on Bannow Road will be adversely affected as will the many thousands more who will need its services over the coming months and years. If the government and FÁS are truly committed to ending the current jobs crisis then they need to put their money where their mouth is and reverse this crazy decision.” ENDS