Funding for essential social
services like the FAB Community and Family Resource Centre and the Wexford Women's
Refuge must be provided according to the Sinn Féin candidate for the European
South Constituency. During a visit to
Wexford last week, Liadh Ní Riada said that she was extremely impressed with
the work being carried out at these centres and planned to push for adequate European
funding to be made available for them.
Local Sinn Féin Cllr Anthony
Kelly said that the resources provided by places like the FAB centre had to be
protected from further cuts.
"The Open Minds project is
just one of the many fantastic schemes being ran out of the FAB centre,"
Cllr Kelly said, "Tackling mental
health issues and the stigma around suicide is of fundamental importance to
Irish society today. Open Minds, like
many of the initiatives being organised in the FAB centre, plays an important
role in the local area and the town at large."
"Community projects have
been starved of funding under the harsh austerity programme of this government
and their Fianna Fail predecessors. Only
last year we saw Wexford's Women's Refuge shut down for thirteen weeks because
of a lack of funding. That centre is
packed to capacity these days. Instead
of introducing cost saving temporary closures, more funding should be made
available to allow it to expand."
"We in Sinn Féin have fought
tooth and nail against the tide of austerity.
We have put forward alternatives and argued for sustainable investment
in worthy projects. Our local European
candidate, Liadh Ní Riada, will go to the European Parliament with a mandate to
continue that fight over there and with a desire and ability to access unused,
available EU funds."
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment