Minister coming to Playgroup next week

Kilcullen Community Playgroup is hosting a very special visitor next Monday, April 30, in the person of the minister for children and youth affairs, Frances Fitzgerald.

The minister will visit the existing prefab building being used by the Playgroup, from 4pm, and will see the plans for and be shown around the site of the proposed new Childcare & Family Resource Centre.

Minister Fitzgerald will also meet with parents and children from past and present years of the Playgroup, and members of the community in Kilcullen who have been supportive of the project.

"It's a very important event for the community of Kilcullen," says spokesperson for the project Iseult O'Donoghue, adding that the visit is a clear indication of support for the project by the minister.