Cunningham to ask if £1.28million Social Investment Fund bid could be used to save Dalriada Hospital
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The bid which is for funding to build community capacity to address health issues is described on the OFMDFM site as awaiting approval.
Councillor Cunningham said: “For three years after the £80 million fund was first announced in March 2011 - an election year - this money lay unspent by OFMDFM before the first announcements of funding were only made in February 2014 – another election year. “
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Hide Ad“Moyle has seen nothing from the OFMDFM. For the purpose of the Social Investment Fund, Moyle is part of a bigger ‘Northern’ regional group, for which initially only one project in Coleraine received funding.”
“In the face of the pending closure of Dalriada Hospital and the further cuts anticipated as a result of the cuts in the Assembly’s draft budget, investing wisely is more important now than ever, the Assembly Executive has failed to bring forward a single new investment project which would benefit Moyle. Investment in Dalriada Hospital would do much to maintain health service provision and provide much needed jobs for the Moyle economy.”