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The SDLP has hit out after it was revealed there will be cuts to the Supporting People programme, which provides housing services to over 20,000 people.
North Belfast MLA Nichola Mallon said the cuts will have a "severe financial and human cost in the long term".
She said: "It is yet another example of where the most vulnerable are being left to pay the price of political brinkmanship and failure.
"I have written to the Chief Executive of the Housing Executive expressing my grave concern at this course of action and requesting immediate reconsideration and reinstatement of this funding. We cannot allow some of the most vulnerable people in our society to bear the brunt of this.
"This all underscores the critical need to restore power sharing and take decisions in the interests of the people we represent."
(CD/LM)
