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Mountwood Resource Centre Building Stalled
Published 19/03/2002The building of a new resource centre in Mountwood is being held up by official confusion over it's funding. Marion White of the Mountwood Fitzgerald Park Community Development project says,
"We've been running a resource centre in an old block of flats for many years now. We provide important services here such as a crèche, after school homework club and a centre for women's education. We had already drawn up plans with the Council for a new centre and this has planning permission. However we have been offered funding from the Department of Justice under an equal opportunity scheme to fund childcare. We have also been offered some funding from the Department of the Environment."
"However the Department of the Environment have made some objections to our design- even though we already have planning permission for this, and it's the approved design for this type of secure childcare facility. Therefore they won't make a decision on how much funding they will give us. The Department of Justice won't say how much they will fund us- unless they know first how much we can obtain from the Department of the Environment."
The deadlocked situation is, she says , extremely frustrating for residents of Mountwood. This is particularly so, as the old block of flats in which the current resource centre is housed is due for demolition- however building work cannot begin on the new centre. Also, when the rebuilding of Mountwood is complete there will be many more children living there. Marion White and other workers demonstrated outside the Council offices on Monday night. Marion said, "Somebody somewhere must be able to kick- start this process again. We have been in contact with Minister Mary Hanafin and I call on her to resolve this situation, as Minister for Children."
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