Cunningham to ask if £1.28million Social Investment Fund bid could be used to save Dalriada Hospital

Ballycastle SDLP Councillor and Chair of Moyle Council Dónal Cunningham is to ask if monies from a £1.28 revenue resource project bid to OFMDFM’s Social Investment Fund could be used to save Dalriada Hospital.
By Claire Cartmill
Published 1st Dec 2014, 15:28 BST

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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“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.”