Urgent funding needed for women’s refuge – Se\u00e1n Crowe TD<\/p>\n
The future of the Cuan \u00c1lainn women’s and children\u2019s shelter in Tallaght is in peril unless the government provides immediate funding for this vital community resource.<\/p>\n
Responding to the imminent closure of Cuan \u00c1lainn, Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD said:<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cThis shelter is currently providing safe haven for nine women and their families and it cannot be allowed to close due to funding issues. Since opening three years ago this centre has provided refuge to over 55 women and 82 children fleeing from domestic violence and now may face closure in January.<\/p>\n
The Respond!\u00a0housing association, which established Cuan \u00c1lainn, has an application for funding into the Department for Children and Youth Affairs and I am now calling on Minister Reilly to review this application as a matter of urgency.<\/p>\n
The funding crisis facing Cuan \u00c1lainn is unfortunately not a unique problem in this area and is part of a wider homeless crisis facing Tallaght, with many shelters now full to capacity and those in need being sent elsewhere, out of their community, in order to find a bed for the night.<\/p>\n
It is unacceptable that an emergency housing shelter located in a community, where resources are already stretched, is now facing closure and the Minister needs to act immediately.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Urgent funding needed for women’s refuge – Se\u00e1n Crowe TD The future of the Cuan \u00c1lainn women’s and children\u2019s shelter in Tallaght is in peril unless the government provides immediate funding for this vital community resource. Responding to the imminent closure of Cuan \u00c1lainn, Dublin South West representative Se\u00e1n Crowe TD said: \u00a0\u201cThis shelter is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1943,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}