North Inner City Groups To Meet Taoiseach Enda Kenny
Reps from the North Inner City are meeting the Taoiseach this evening to discuss the new task force for the area.
Community leaders are meeting with Enda Kenny to hand over their submission on what they think should help form his task force for the North Inner City.
Eight different groups held brainstorming sessions over the last six weeks in areas like housing, education, mental health, addiction and sport.
Irene Crawley is one of six reps who’ll be at Government buildings.
"All of the groups really think it's extremely important that the taskforce draw on the long term, hands on experience of people working and living in this community."
She said there are plenty of projects in the area that Enda Kenny could look at including one aimed at helping children under the age of 10:
"There's a group run by Sandra Burke and a few others, that works out of the Ballybough Youth Centre, and they're volunteers and they have an after-school programme. So they have young people from the community coming together, doing their homework. And these would often be young people who are very much at risk. They have no funding, they have all their resources in a plastic box".
Irene says these group talks have gotten the community together:
"One thing that we found is really important and we hope that as part of this taskforce, this group the North Inner City Community Coalition will achieve is in bringing us together."
The first report with a set of initial recommendations is due in the Autumn.