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The speaker might be sitting lower in his chair today in case he gets egged as its last day of term. The special sitting to cover extra business will see the Environment Minister read through the second stage of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill, the Social Development Minister do likewise with the Housing (Amendment) [...]
It’s a second stage log jam of legislation with the Agriculture Minister taking the Welfare of Animals Bill, Regional Development shepherding the Transport Bill and Enterprise keeping an eye on the Tourism (Amendment) Bill through the house. Question time sees DCAL’s Nelson McCausland at the dispatch box before the Assembly does a spot of end [...]
Staff from First Trust Bank, accompanied by their trade union representatives from the Irish Bank Officials Association (IBOA), today met the First Minister and Deputy First Minister in Belfast to outline their serious concerns about the potential implications of the proposed sale of the bank by AIB plc. Today’s meeting follows earlier engagements with Finance [...]
In the days when the BBC used to play God Save the Queen at the end of an evening; there was always a dash to turn off the TV in our border household; lest our neighbours heard it. Now Queen Elizabeth II will officially come to Ireland- with the proposed visit occurring before the end [...]
The week begins with two public petitions, the first from DUP East Londonderry MLA George Robinson on the Out-of-hours GP Service in Limavady before the SDLP’s Tommy Gallagher protests the Removal of Funding for Summer Schemes for Children with Learning Disabilities. DETI Minister Arlene Foster opens up some procedural jiggery-pokery before the Regional Development Minister [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS…. ‘Anything you can do we can do better’ – forget Isner and Mahut’s 6-4, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6 and 70-68 marathon at Wimbledon. That was only 11 hours and five minutes of play spread over three days. This week the Assembly managed to sit for 19 hours and three minutes in just [...]
Young people across Northern Ireland were urged to be fearless in the fight against crime as crime-fighting charity Crimestoppers launched its new service for young people. Fearless is the new youth brand that introduces young people to the service provided by Crimestoppers. It consists of the website, www.fearless.org, where young people can get information about [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS…. What a stroke of bad fortune that was. You wait all those years to finally decide that the reform of Local Govt. won’t be happening any time soon, and just as you’re about to explain to the electorate why £9m has drifted off into the ether, along comes the Saville report [...]
The legislation comes thick and fast today on the Hill when DFP Minister Sammy Wilson gets things underway with the second stage of the Budget (No.3) Bill. His Executive colleague at Enterprise Arlene Foster follows with the same process for the Energy Bill before Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy moves the Roads (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill for its further [...]
The leaked media reports about the much anticipated Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday are unhelpful and unwarranted or as Martin McGuinness has said only serve to ‘heap anguish upon anguish’ for the families of victims. The decision to delay the publication of the report until after the election was most likely intended to spare the [...]
It’s that stuff that makes the world go round that dominates the early part of today’s agenda with the Finance Minister Sammy Wilson leading two supply resolutions and the first stage of the Budget (No. 3) Bill. The Minister of Social Development Alex Attwood then shepherds the Welfare Reform Bill through its consideration stage. Finance Minister [...]
THE WEEK THAT WAS…. Business in the House was never going to make for prime time viewing, but in recent months what little did pass for entertainment seems to have dried up. The atmosphere is as flat as Rio Ferdinand’s ‘welcome’ home party from the World Cup and as enticing as free membership of the [...]
To celebrate the development of Northern Ireland’s first ever Retail Foundation Degree, launched in January 2010, students involved in the innovative development were given a masterclass on the future of the sector by Hugh Black, Manager of the jewel in Belfast’s retail crown, Victoria Square. The event was organized by fdf (Foundation Degree Forward) in [...]
DEL Minister Sir Reg Empey gets things underway on the hill today bringing the Student Loans (Amendment) Bill to its second stage. Next Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy goes in at the deep end as he seeks affirmation for both the River Bann Navigation Order (Northern Ireland) 2010 and the Donaghadee Harbour Order (Northern Ireland) [...]
It’s an odd world when Coronation Street is postponed because it may upset people who were digesting the impact of the recent Cumbrian killings. This type of nonsense only increases the blur between reality and soap life as too many people already think that the characters in soap-land are real. Television schedulers postponing Coronation Street [...]
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