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Thank you very much indeed. That is it from Edinburgh we | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
The First Minister tells us the constant disagreements mean it's | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
None of those brought down the executive, while none of those were | :00:22. | :00:36. | |
capable of ensuring that we could no longer proceed as an executive, we | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
now have an issue, which simply cannot be left on the shelf. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
We'll be asking DUP and Sinn Fein ministers for their solution. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Away from Stormont it's a united front, as hundreds | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Could what's called a "living wage" mean more money in our pockets? | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
Prv it would frighten the living daylights out of me. | :00:55. | :01:08. | |
And they did it in the sunshine, so it will be be more tomorrow? I will | :01:09. | :01:21. | |
have the forecast. So the First Minister Peter Robinson | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
says the arrangements for the devolved Assembly are | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
"No longer fit for purpose." He wants | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
the government to convene new talks The Deputy First Minister Martin | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
McGuinness says Sinn Fein is always But he's questioned whether they | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
would be successful because We'll be hearing from a DUP | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
and a Sinn Fein minister shortly. First, our political editor Mark | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Devenport reports on an impending Complaints about the delays and | :01:48. | :02:03. | |
vetoes built into the current Stormont system aren't new. But what | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
is bringing the issue to the boil now, is the divide between the | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
parties over welfare reform. Sinn Fein MLAs demonstrated outside the | :02:13. | :02:16. | |
assembly building yesterday against what they view as Tory welfare cuts. | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
Republicans appear prepared to maintain their opposition at least | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
until next year's general election, in the hope that a new Government in | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
London might cut Northern Ireland benefit claimants a better deal. By | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
contrast, the DUP fears Treasury fines combined with the price of | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
introducing a stand alone computer system will break the Stormont bank. | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
We now have an issue which simply cannot be left on the shelf, it is | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
one that has to be dealt with, because we simply cannot afford in | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
terms of welfare, reform, to lift up the tab of a billion pounds a year, | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
when we only have a budget for resource expenditure of ?10 billion. | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
We simply couldn't cut by 1,000 million pounds the services we give | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
to the people and the people who provide those services within the | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
public sector. If you don't get what you want is this a resigning matter? | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
You are not going to find any member of the Democratic Unionist Party who | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
will be willing to cull a thousand million pound out of the budget. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
What kind of party would be prepared to allow the people of Northern | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
Ireland to suffer, by having the welfare costs applied which | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
literally throw money away. By calling for a round of negotiations, | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
just like the St Andrew's talks in 2006, Peter Robinson is consciously | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
setting the stakes high. He is arguing it is time to scrap the | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
system we had for the past seven years and replace it with something | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
radically different. But Republicans are sceptical. Sinn Fein has always | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
been up for an engagement on meaningful and genuine and positive | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
dialogue and discussion to resolve problems and we will do so again, | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
but I do caution everybody, as to whether or not this is a serious | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
attempt to resolve these issues, and I think many people out there will | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
be asking themselves, very serious questions about those who have been | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
invited, to talk to them, who have not yet been agreed and the negative | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
approach they have adopted to these institutions over the course of many | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
years. That is thinly veiled code for this Manchester United, | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
Stormont's arch critic who said he would attend talks. This system is a | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
failure, for Mr Robinson to say it is unfit for purpose, yet to | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
continue to prop it up, is a surprising contraDick tiontion if he | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
thinks it is unfit for purpose put it out of its agony. Stormont has | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
the builders in, carry -- carrying out vital repair, when or whether | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
political repair work gets under way remains uncertain. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
The Secretary of State said she would be looking carefully at Peter | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
Robinson's proposals, but stressed the need for local political leaders | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
to address the issues which are blocking effective decision-making. | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
Theresa Villiers said it was vital to find a way forward with welfare | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
reform or there was a real danger the institutions would | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
-- contradiction. The real danger is theys, it becomes more difficult to | :05:19. | :05:33. | |
get decisions made for the coalition to work effectively. We although | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
that managing coalitions are difficult but if month after month | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
you are taking very difficult decisions is about cuts having to be | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
made to other departmental budgets to fund a more expensive welfare | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
system, that is very difficult, it makes political relationships much | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
more strained, it will inhibit the effectiveness and the ability of the | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Northern Ireland Executive to deliver on things like school, | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
hospitals and policing, and that is why it is an issue that needs to be | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
resolved. This is a strong case for implementing welfare reform and I | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
I'm joined now in the studio by the DUP enterprise minister | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
Arlene Foster and the Sinn Fein education minister John O'Dowd. | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
What are the DUP talking about here? An early election or back to the | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
negotiating table? What we are saying when we look back to St | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
Andrew's we said it was a fair deal to move forward with but it wasn't | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
the final destination, we felt there was a need to look at a better way | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
of doing devolution if I can use that phrase in the future, and now | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
this welfare reform issue has brought all of those things to a | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
head, and Peter is now saying it is time to look at the running of | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Stormont, how can we make it bet foreit were people of Northern | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Ireland, how can we make it more efficient and effective, that is | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
what it is about. You are talking about going back to the negotiating | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
table. What would an election achieve? He didn't mention an | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
election in his piece in the paper. What he is focussed on is having | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
good Government for Northern Ireland, I think the people of | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
Northern Ireland want politicians to look at the faults if there are any | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
and try to make them better. Are you looking for wholesale change? An | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
opposition and a government as we have in London and in Dublin? When | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
Government was set up back in 2007 there were various community | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
safeguards put into place, sometimes those are seen as vetoes and the | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
veto that has been caused by Sinn Fein's refusal to pass welfare | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
reform into Northern Ireland, is causing severe difficulties for us | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
now, in relation to ?79 million of cuts which are having to be | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
implemented right across Government and Northern Ireland, and what Peter | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
is saying, given the information we have received from our national | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
Government, is that that is going to cost ?100 million of a cut to the | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
Northern Ireland Executive budget and there is no way we could | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
implement those sorts of figures, in Northern Ireland, and run an | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
efficient and effective Government. The DUP has used in the past. | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Exactly. The DUP leader describes this as time consuming, sluggish, we | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
know there is a failure in decision making at the moment, so how can you | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
fix that system? Well, Sinn Fein are always willing to engage and debate | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
and discuss these issues, whether it is the DUP or others, what concerns | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
us about this proposal it appears the DUP wish to bring in | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
anti-agreement elements into the discussion, why you would wanted to | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
bring into discussions round the future of the assembly about the | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
future of the power-sharing executive, society, people who are | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
expressly against all those elements, is a case of concern to | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
us. It appears to be an anti-agreement axis working together | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
to undermine the institutions. We have listeners and viewers | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
contacting the BBC all the time, they say the folks on the hill, they | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
are not making the decisions, you are not working it out. The | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
power-sharing isn't working, you have been elected to power-share, | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
how will you fission it It can work if the individuals wish them to | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
work. However, if those have an idea we are going to return to one party | :09:19. | :09:26. | |
rule they are living in cloud cuckoo land... Is that what you want? Are | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
you talking about negotiating the St Andrew's agreement or the Good | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
Friday Agreement as John O'Dowd seems to be suggesting? John is | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
inSuperintendenting the intelligence of your viewers by suggesting that, | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
and I am surprised he rays up is an issue, if you read Peter Robinson's | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
report, I would urge people to read it, he suggests we need to make | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
devolution better, I would have thought everybody would have wanted | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
to make devolution better for the future of people of Northern | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Ireland. I have listened to all the parties today, and none of them are | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
saying that devolution is perfect, at the moment, all of them are | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
saying there are difficulties so let us look at them and let us make it | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
better for the people of Northern Ireland. And we should do it, with | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
as many people as we possibly can. I am surprised to hear John talk about | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
which shouldn't invite this person or that person, we should try and | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
get as wide a view as possible, in Northern Ireland, as to what way we | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
move forward. Talks brought us to this place, could further talks take | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
us a step further. The purpose of the invite is crucial. If we are | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
trying to form an axis that is concerning. Sinn Fein are willing to | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
engage, but we are not going back, we have to go forward. It is | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
interesting the subject that has reenergised the British's Government | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
involvement in politics is welfare cut. We have been saying the British | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
Government and the Irish Government have disengaged from the political | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
and peace process. We have a British Government very interested in our | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
politics but not on the basis of peace building or community building | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
it is welfare cuts. That doesn't create a better society or | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
Government, it harms people. Both of you given the threat of independence | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
has got the Westminster Government offering concessions to Scotland, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
should the both of you not get together and lobby Westminster and | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
get more concessions in regard to welfare reforms? It was a DUP | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
minister that received concessions in relation to welfare reform at the | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
time it was going through Westminster, but it has already been | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
implemented and I think that is possibly something that people miss | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
from time to time, we should stand together and go against welfare | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
reform. Welfare reform is here, it's a aty. We are already dealing with | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
?79 million of a cut to our budget, we are looking at 1,000 million next | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
year, in relation to cut, and... Where do you get that from? That | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
seems to be more than others have been talking about in relation to | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
cut, and... Where do you get that from? That seems to be more than | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
others have been talking about One billion is what Nick Clegg say it | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
takes to run the current computer system in England and Wales and if | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
they stop using that computer system, and we take it on, to use it | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
ourselves, then we will have to fund that, that is an astronomical | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
figure, there is no way we would be able to run a government with a 10% | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
cut. People are already suffering from the cuts and the penalties that | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
have been imposed. You are not going to get any more money. I think it is | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
worth noting the petrols you Scots have got more from the British | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
Government than the compliant unionists in this society has got. | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
When you stand up to the British Government, when you engage for the | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
benefit of greater society you can take changes from the British | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Government, regardless o-of-what happens in relation to the Scottish | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
independence vote there will be changes between the British | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
Government and Scotland, to the benefit of the Scottish people. I | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
think the point that you made, that the executive parties should stand | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
united and work with the British Government to create changes here is | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
better than the situation we have now. We get benefits from being in | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
the UK every day. Before we finish with your Education Ministerial hat | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
on John, the executive has agreed on something today, a single education | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
board instead of the current five. You were in favour of the education | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
skills authority, so what compromises have you made on that? | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
Well, all parties have made compromise, this is one of the areas | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
the executive has made progress and we make progress on other matter, | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
what I said is we can't get agreement, it was a broad piece of | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
legislation that covered many area, what we have agreed is to collapse | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
that down under the 86 order to one board. People are familiar with the | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
workings of the board. They have confidence and we will move forward | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
on that basis. Much has it cost in all that time? Up to ?19 millionl | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
that time? Up to ?19 million to establish but we can still make | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
sayings. Thank you for joining us. Our political editor is at Stormont | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
for us this evening. Mark, what is the likelihood that the Government | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
will convene those talks, that Mr Robinson wants? Well, it hasn't been | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
ruled out. At the same time the Westminster Government will be | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
loathe to move ahead unless they felt they had cross-party support. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
As we heard there they come at this from very different angles. If Sinn | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Fein went into negotiations they would want to go into dismantling | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
the system they feel has proper checks and balance, they will want | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
to load in their concern, be it about welfare reform or about those | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
unresolved issue, so we are still some distance away from knowing | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
whether such talks would get underway. When you were speaking to | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
the First Minister today did you get a feeling he was ready to pull the | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
plug if he didn't get his way? I didn't get a feeling it was as | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
imminent as when we had the controversy about on the run, it was | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
clear that he was ready to resign, instead, when I asked him about the | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
possibility of triggering an early election he talked about the | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
negotiationing aways fitting into the cycle of elections we already | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
have. I detected a softening from some of those reports from this | :15:14. | :15:27. | |
A major expansion in Belfast by the financial services company | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
Deloitte is delivering more than 300 well-paid jobs. | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
Political leaders say it's a sign of confidence in Northern Ireland | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill. | :15:38. | :15:39. | |
Crisis, what crisis? Good news on the jobs front brings a show of | :15:40. | :15:44. | |
unity, 338 new posts are being created here, by the global firm | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Deloitte and as far as the economy goes, the executive says it is | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
business as usual. We will continue to do our day job in relation to | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
bringing jobs here to Northern Ireland, we are a stable place to do | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
business with. That message has to go out. The jobs will be delivered | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
over a five year period, and will include posts in technology, as well | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
as finance. Skilled positions with good salaries. It is a mix of jobs | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
in this announcement of 338. The average salary is ?33,000 and that | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
will deliver 11 million into the Northern Ireland economy, when we | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
are up and running. This is the second tile Deloitte has expanded | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
here in as many year -- time and it is helping the ream perform in terms | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
of job creation. Like this one, there have been big job | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
announcements over the past two years and the economy is picking up. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
But one economic outlook report published today described our | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
recovery as patchy. We have the lowest growth rate of 12 UK region, | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
and unemployment is twice what it was before the recession. But most | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
experts acknowledge clear signs of improvement. The economy is the | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
executives number one priority. And when jobs announcements like this | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
one come along, success has two fathers. | :17:03. | :17:12. | |
Introducing a so-called "living wage" here wouldn't cause | :17:13. | :17:14. | |
job losses and could even lead an increase in employment, | :17:15. | :17:16. | |
research for the NI Centre for Voluntary Action has suggested. | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
The living wage is an hourly rate, above the minimum wage, | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
which is assessed as giving workers a basic standard of living. | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
Our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell reports. | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
It is workers like these that would benefit from the living wage. It is | :17:35. | :17:43. | |
?7.657 an hour, by comparison the minimum wage is ?6.31 an hour. Aside | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
from care workers the beneficiaries would be staff in retail and | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
hospitality. The research suggests that a mandatory living wage would | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
help about 173,000 low paid workers here. They would get an average pay | :17:57. | :18:03. | |
rise of ?1300 a year. That would cost employers an extra ?221 million | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
in wage, but could that afford it? To be honest it would frighten the | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
living daylights out of me. It will give me two options, one to pass the | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
cost on to clients, who are already very hard-pressed with the economic | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
restraints we are all suffering from, or the alternative is to try | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
and persuade Government to loosen the regulations, that apply to our | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
industry. The organisation which commissioned the research says there | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
are risk, but also potential up sides for employers and the whole | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
economy It is about 1% extra on the wage bill. We recognise it won't | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
fall evenly. Employers will have to find that bypassing on the cost, to | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
their customer, in terms of goods answer advice, from reduced profit | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
they are making, or the good thing is if they can increase productivity | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
and expand their business in this process. In fact the research | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
suggests the extra spending power could create as many as 2,500 jobs. | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
This Belfast housing associate is already a living wage employer. They | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
say that by taking the step it has improved the organisation's | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
performance. Not only is the quality of work improved by morale has | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
improved over the short-term. But in terms of individual families, it is | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
significant getting an extra two, ?2,500 a year on the their income. | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
There is widespread political sympathy for low paid workers who | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
have seen mere wages squeezed further during the downturn. | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
Stormont is unlikely to do anything as radical as imposing the living | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
The director of the East Belfast Mission - the church | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
group behind the multi-million pound Skainos centre in east Belfast - | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
has been dismissed after allegedly falsifying his travel expenses. | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
Mark Houston, who's been in the high profile job for seven | :19:59. | :20:00. | |
Here's our investigations reporter Kevin Magee. | :20:01. | :20:12. | |
As the man responsible for the day-to-day running of the East | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
Belfast Mission, Mark Houston, seen here behind the Queen, played host | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
to royalty and leading politicians, often showing them around the | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
church's flagship social enterprise project, known as Skainos, | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
When the ?21 million, mainly publicly funded complex was opened | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
two years ago, it was described as a glimpse of the future. | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
It is in harmony with where we are as a community at the present time, | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
and I want to see Northern Ireland moving forward and this represents | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
But behind the positive headlines, the mission has been carrying out | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
As part of that, its high-profile director, Mark Houston, seen here | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
on the left with the Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, was | :20:58. | :21:00. | |
dismissed from his ?50,000-a-year job for gross misconduct - | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
for allegedly falsifying documents in relation to travel expenses | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
and the inappropriate use of a company credit card. | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
According to a disciplinary hearing, he also failed to comply with | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
the mission's internet and e-mail policy. | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
Mr Houston declined to make any comment, as he said he did not want | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
to prejudice any future unfair dismissal case he's bringing | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
It is understood he strongly denies any wrongdoing. | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Sources close to him say reasons he was given for his dismissal are | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
"deeply flawed" and he feels he has been "very badly treated". | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
The mission confirmed Mark Houston has been dismissed for gross | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
misconduct, but declined to comment further, saying the dismissal is now | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
the subject of legal proceedings, which will be heard in January. | :21:47. | :21:57. | |
A west Belfast family whose grandmother died in a fire | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
in a care home say they're disappointed the home breached fire | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
regulations two years after the pensioner died, despite it | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
Kathleen Fegan was critically injured in the blaze in 2012, which | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
Care Circle, who now manage the home, have told the BBC that | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly reports. | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
Kathleen Fegan died after a fire broke out in her bathroom at the | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
care home where she lived for several months. At the time care was | :22:33. | :22:37. | |
provided by this association, but following the incident and other | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
problem, it was deregistered and the contract taking over by the care | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Circle group instead. Despite it being under new management, | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
inspectors found fire regulations weren't up to standard. Kathleen's | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
family said they were disappointed lessons hadn't been learned Couldn't | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
believe it. We couldn't get our heads round it. Two years down the | :23:00. | :23:06. | |
line they haven't learned anything. The ebbing inspectors found problems | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
with fire doors. There was a delay in an alarm bell. In the spoking | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
room there weren't enough chairs, with some not fire proof and there | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
wasn't a fire blanket in the smoking area. After being contacted by the | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
BBC care Circle said: Kathleen's grandson wants other | :23:27. | :23:41. | |
families to learn from their experience. Although she did die or | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
Rickically, it was a very disturbing death it is an opportunity I feel | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
for other families to come forward who feel their most vulnerable | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
members of their family's needs aren't being met. The family | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
solicitor say more people are resorting to the legal system to | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
challenge the authorities and standards of care. I think the care | :24:02. | :24:06. | |
home, you know, should provide answers to families, and in the | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
absence of any proper answers or can't guilty families will look to | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
legal remedy. The inquest is due to get under way on Friday. | :24:19. | :24:20. | |
World Boxing champion Carl Frampton got a rousing reception at Belfast | :24:21. | :24:27. | |
City Hall today where fans gathered to applaud his win at the weekend. | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
The north Belfast fighter was the special guest of the Lord Mayor, | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
who described him as the People's Champion. | :24:34. | :24:47. | |
He strolled on the stage at City Hall as Belfast's new sporting hero. | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
Crowds of people turned out to catch a glimpse of Carl Frampton, he was | :24:54. | :25:00. | |
given a Lord Mayor's reception to mark an exceptional achievement. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
There are hundred of people here to welcome and to congratulate the | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
latest World Champion from this part of the world, Carl the Jackal | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
Frampton, standing beside the Lord Mayor of Belfast. This is obviously | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
a very important day for the city, but just explain why it was you | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
thought it was important to have Carl on that stage in front of these | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
people now? The people of Belfast adore him. There was no point in | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
doing something behind closed door, the people of Belfast wanted to show | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
how proud they are. They have come out do that. Will The people's | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
champion? He is. What about these people gathered round, how important | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
are they when you are stepping into a ring in a fight like that I said | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
it before, you know, the biggest crowd before this was 9,000 in the | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Odyssey, I said it adds 10% to my game. Maybe 20% this time. Unbelieve | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
tfbs. Unbelievable and undefeated. It was -- unbelievable it was. | :25:54. | :26:02. | |
Until yesterday temperature cloud was a bit of a sticking point. It | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
looked as though it was going to be hanging about. It started to break | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
up nicely. That let to idealS for viewing the bright super moon, a | :26:15. | :26:17. | |
lovely photograph there taken at Portrush, through today we have been | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
left with patchy cloud, running in from the west to north-west. | :26:23. | :26:25. | |
Trickling across Northern Ireland from time to time. That is melting | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
away, so a fine end to the day, lots of evening sunshine round, some | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
lovely sunsets. Through the night, we still have the clear spells and | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
it will be chilly in the town, anywhere between six and eight | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
degree, but I think we could find one or two rural spots getting close | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
to freezing and the odd pocket of grass frost. They will go tomorrow, | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
it looks like another dry day, decent spells of sunshine. We will | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
have that sunshine from the word go. We might find patchy cloud drifting | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
in to parts of the east coast. We need to watch the County Down coast | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
because of that breeze. It could feel fresh there as well as patchy | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
cloud moving in from time to time. But, inland w the sunshine, well, it | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
is looking decent, I think west is going to be best tomorrow and | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
towards the north-west. This is where we will see high, 18-20 | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
degrees. Not bad at all. So another fine evening to come tomorrow and | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
again we have clear spells through tomorrow. Tomorrow night there is a | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
greater risk we will have a few visibility issue, ewe will see mist | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
and fog forming. That could linger into Thursday morning. Clearing to | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
get once again decent spells of sunshine and highs of 20 degrees. | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
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