Members of unionist and republican parties shared a platform to showsupport for the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action's EnoughIs Enough campaign to reduce poverty.
Nelson McCausland, a Democratic Unionist Party MLA, said: "Poverty isnot limited to unionist or nationalist communities. It needs to be movedup the Government's priority list."
The five parties called on Northern Ireland's recently appointedchildren's minister Lord Rooker to strengthen a proposed anti-povertystrategy.
- www.communityni.org.
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