Lo puts community relations funding on Assembly agenda
25/05/10
Alliance MLA Anna Lo is proposing a motion in the Assembly on Monday to address cuts in community relations funding within the Department of Education. The motion is asking how the Minister can make any meaningful contribution to good relations with cuts of this nature being implemented.
Anna Lo said: "Caitríona Ruane's decision to make significant cuts to her Department's community relations budget will have a very profound impact on services and on vital moves to ensure good relations across the whole community.
"We need to be doing all we can to tackle division in our society. Given the importance of providing young people with the most positive start possible, the education sector is one in which I would have hoped there would be strong community relations provisions, as opposed to cuts to them.
"This is a very important issue and I am glad to have the opportunity to put this to the Assembly. Creating a shared future has to be a top priority, and we need strong services, not cuts."
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