Meet the election candidates in Roscrea

Roscrea's 'Meet the Candidates' public meeting takes place this Thursday, January 30th, in the town’s Abbey Hall at 8pm.

As County Tipperary is now a single constituency with Roscrea geographically situated on the perimeter of the county surrounded by Laois and Offaly, the Roscrea Community Development Council (RCDC) feel that it is imperative to provide a public forum so that those candidates who are seeking the support of the people of Roscrea and relevant hinterland can outline their commitment to what the people of Roscrea see as their priorities.

Perhaps the greatest priority now facing Roscrea is the future of the Dean Maxwell home, over which there now lies an impending embargo that will see the home unable to take new long term stay patients from next year. RCDC wants that embargo lifted until such time as a capital grant is approved for Roscrea to fund capital Investment either in the existing home or a new build facility, which will ensure that the people of Roscrea who will need the long term stay facilities of the Dean Maxwell home into the future will continue to have such facilities in Roscrea.  Otherwise, those requiring such facilities from Roscrea into the future may have to seek them in other towns, which would mean that people would have to be uprooted from their own community and live out their final years elsewhere.

RCDC emphasise that if such facilities are taken from Roscrea, they will never return. Thus, it states that it is up to this generation of Roscrea people to ensure that that does not happen and therefore it urges a large attendance at the public meeting this Thursday night, January 30th at 8pm.