Northern Ireland Health Minister Ms Bairbre de Brún was today accused of taking a "partitionist" attitude to helping victims of rape.
Ms Eileen Calder, co-director of the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre claimed the unit was the worst funded in Ireland.
"Thirty two thousand pounds doesn't run a rape crisis centre," said Ms Calder.
"Bairbre de Brún has had in her possession for the last two years, research commissioned by the Irish network of rape crisis centres which clearly sets out what a centre needs.
"We are the poorest centre in Ireland and Bairbre as a republican has taken a very partitionist view," she added.
Earlier this year, the crisis at the centre was revealed when its phone lines were cut off because it had run out of money.
During an Assembly debate on the issue, Sinn Fein’s Ms de Brún said the centre had failed to apply for funding this year.
The minister added that the centre had a record of failing to submit proper audited accounts or annual reports. She said the department had given the centre an additional £11,000 to buy computer equipment and to draw up a strategic business plan.
"For some time now my officials have been trying to work with the centre in order to establish a clearer picture of the organisation's financial position.
"Unfortunately this business plan so far has failed to materialise."
But Ms Calder insisted that the centre had submitted its application for funding on time.
"We sent the grant form. Unlike them, we are not going to call them liars and say they received it but they have a revised application form with them and they have the business plan."
MLAs unanimously supported an Ulster Unionist motion calling for adequate funding to secure the centre's long term future.
Mr Esmond Birnie (UUP, South Belfast) said the department should have told the centre's management that it had not received this year's application.
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