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The Financial Provisions Bill’s final stage is the prelude to a cultural extravaganza on the hill today. The first act is a solo performance from DCAL Minister Nelson McCausland at the dispatch box for oral questions. Without an interval the Culture Arts and Leisure Committee will then seek the Assembly’s approval for their inquiry report [...]
OVER the past three weeks I have been on two continents – America and Asia. Travel is a useful reminder that the world does not revolve around Northern Ireland.
Turmoil suited our politicians. Peace and normality does not.
Once they strode the world stage with presidents and statesmen. Now they must make do with policing and sewers.
The [...]
Legislation continues to flow through the house today with both the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Bill and the Department of Justice Bill reaching their further consideration stage.
OFMDFM and Agriculture will face oral questions before the assembly will approve interesting adjustments to standing orders covering rare circumstances when the speaker or any of his three [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
“Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé!” (“Arise children of the fatherland, the day of glory has arrived!”). So goes the first line of ‘La Marsaillaise’. There wasn’t, however, too much ‘glory’ on display in Paris on Wednesday night as the ‘Hand of Frog’ put paid to the [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
“We’re forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air. They go so high, they reach the sky, then like my dreams they fade and die”.
So goes the refrain on the Bobby Moore stand as West Ham fans console themselves with another disappointing home performance. ‘Bubbles’ are by no means a preserve of [...]
The Diseases of Animals Bill nears the end of its journey when it reaches the floor of the house for its detailed consideration stage. The Social Development Minister will be at the dispatch box for oral questions before a DUP motion attempts to protect Northern Ireland’s block grant. The other item of private members business [...]
SITTING watching the programme When Boris Met Dave there can be little doubt that David Cameron must be embarrassed. One suspects that the unapologetic but enigmatic Boris may have actually enjoyed the programme.
Cameron is the Tory equivalent of what the Americans call a ‘plastic Paddy’, ie an invented persona. While his counterpart and would-be rival [...]
The pace of legislation picks up through the house today with the Financial Provisions Bill reaching its further consideration stage, the Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations seeking final approval and OFMDFM seeking to rubber-stamp the Westminster Child Poverty Bill into Northern Ireland.
Question time sees the Health and Regional Development Ministers take central stage before the Health [...]
As the DUP and Sinn Fein continue to engage in ‘call my bluff’ over the mechanisms of when and how to transfer policing and justice powers, they are both unwittingly fostering the disengagement of an increasingly cynical and sceptical electorate.
Without any sense of humour the new chief constable wryly says the £1 billion package is [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS….
Given the paucity of Executive business snaking its way through the Assembly these days, it is with some surprise to have to report some useful business emanating from Stormont’s ‘corridors of power’.
Ok, so the DSD Committee’s report into Town Centre Planning isn’t going to be up there in the Christmas charts with [...]
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