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The new First Minister has said she will do all she can to change | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
the political culture but Arlene Foster has warned | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
that it can only be done by working together. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Mrs Foster is the first woman and the youngest person | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Peter Robinson confirmed his resignation to the Assembly this | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
Our political correspondent Chris Page has more. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
Striding downstairs to go up to the highest office. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
The new DUP leader was about to become First Minister. | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Arlene Foster was asked probably the easiest question she has ever | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
Are you willing to take the office of First Minister? | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
It sounded rather technical but it officially marked her start | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
There was a time she wouldn't have believed it. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
As a young girl growing up in rural Fermanagh, | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
in the days when we were plagued by terrorism and decisions | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
affecting our fear and future were taken far away, | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
I could not have dreamt that I would be in this | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
Is it any wonder that in politics, I believe nothing | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
Watching her at the pinnacle of her career was her | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
The DUP leader's late father was shot and injured by the IRA | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
The Deputy First Minister acknowledged the hurt | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Mrs Foster's family has been caused and said he would work | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
positively with his new partner in government. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
I pledge a positive spirit, a constructive spirit and a good | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
heart in working with Arlene as First Minister through these | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
In politics, every entrance means an exit and Peter Robinson's last | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
duty is First Minister was to nominate his | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
I hereby resign the offic of First Minister with | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
confidence that the political institutions we have together | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
created will be here for generations to come. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
The Ulster Unionist leader noted the DUP's | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
unprecedented little success under Mr Robinson. | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
I am sure at least privately, a part of the drop in some will join | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
with me in hoping that history reflects that that was the peak | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
Arlene Foster surely has other ideas. | :02:41. | :02:54. | |
Good wishes and wishful thinking! After the laughter, the long haul | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
will begin. It's been a day of political | :03:03. | :03:03. | |
choreography, of carefully crafted speeches and generally warm, | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
witty words but now that the new First Minister has been formally | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
installed in office, attention will turn more | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
and more to the assembly elections which are due to take | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
place in under four months. Arlene Foster grew up | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
and still lives in County Fermanagh. BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson went | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
to her old school to see what young people there think of her | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
as the new First Minister. It's not everyday a former pupil | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
becomes First Minister. These sixth formers were not even | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
born when a young Arlene Kelly, as she was then, left | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Enniskillen Collegiate in 1989. She was a prefect, | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
she was on the hockey team but unlike now, she was | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
seen but seldom heard. I remember her as | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
a very quiet pupil. She has obviously made | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
up for it since then! Little did I think all those years | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
ago that I had a future leader of the DUP sitting | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
in front of me and obviously now today, | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
our new First Minister. These pupils watched and listened | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
as she took the top job. I can see the values | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
of our school coming through, that our school reinforces | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
that it doesn't matter that you are a woman | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
and you can achieve anything. No matter what you believe | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
in Northern Ireland, you can see from Arlene that she has | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
risen through the ranks. She is from our background | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
and has been able to get her way through | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
a stereotypical man's world. It shows that no matter | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
what stereotype with women and careers, it | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
doesn't matter because with hard work and determination | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
you can get to the highest level. The fact that she is from rural | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
Fermanagh and she is from our school and our community, | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
it is nice for us. Would you consider going | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
into politics yourself? What is the view of Arlene Foster | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
in the wider community? Can she as First Minister | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
represent everyone? If she is the leader of our country, | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
she will have to remember that I think she can and I think | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
she has a lot of respect She has worked to gain | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
a respect so yes I would I think it's brilliant, | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
a breath of fresh air. She did very well | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
when she was at school. Her final report said | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
she accepted hard work was needed to progress, is reliable | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
and assumes responsibility. BBC Newsline's Tara Mills | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
spoke to the DUP leader, now First Minister, | :05:41. | :05:54. | |
Arlene Foster this afternoon and asked her if she was concerned | :05:55. | :05:55. | |
that there's only a short period of time before | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
the Assembly election. Despite the fact I have just | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
become First Minister, I have been a minister | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
for a considerable record and what I need | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
to do now is to move ahead and give hope to everybody | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
in Northern Ireland, that the vision of Northern Ireland | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
I have is a positive one and one When the elections do come, | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
what is your vision When it comes to 1916, | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
the Taoiseach has said today you will not attend | :06:29. | :06:30. | |
the commemorative events. You talked about wanting people | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
to be proud of being from Northern Ireland, do you think | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
you are wrong in this? Not at all because the Easter | :06:38. | :06:39. | |
Rebellion in 1916 was a violent attack against the State | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
towards the place where The government of the | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
Republic of Ireland have only moved recently to become | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
involved in the commemoration To be honest, I think people | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
in Northern Ireland are more concerned with what | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
is happening in 2016. They want us to get on with the job | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
of work and not become embroiled in relation | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
to historical events. History is very interesting | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
and I love it, I am an amateur student of history but I want | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
to focus on the future You've been described by your | :07:16. | :07:33. | |
colleagues as compassionate and caring, would you bring those views | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
to the laws around abortion and same-sex marriage. I hope that | :07:38. | :07:45. | |
people will take me as in open person. I will not be discriminated | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
against anybody in terms of who they are all the background is another | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
something I communicate it today when I spoke in the house. It | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
doesn't take away from the fact that I believe and additional marriage | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
between a man and a woman but that doesn't mean I denigrate those who | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
decide they want to celebrate the, sexuality in civil partnerships. | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
That is a matter for them and I am not going to be involved in judging | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
anybody but the way they live their lives. The vote is getting closer | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
and closer, would you give your party a free vote on it? That is | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
something we will discuss the future. I know when Peter was asked | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
that, he said he would consider it. Even if there were a free vote, I | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
know that all of my colleagues believe the definition of additional | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
marriage and therefore it is semantics to talk about a free vote | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
because I am sure we would get the same result. There's talk now of a | :08:44. | :08:52. | |
European referendum. Sammy Wilson has laid out where his views are. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
What is your position? We are as a party are Euro-sceptic. I was at an | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
event recently where Charles Flanagan, the public about and's | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
Foreign Minister, set out what he believes the best way forward in | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
regards to Europe and I said out my vision. There are still questions to | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
be answered regarding Europe and we do await the outcome of the prime | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
ministers negotiations and then we will make a final call. I think it's | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
right to say that Europe has had an overbearing impact in relation to | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
the United Kingdom. Will she as the new First Minister | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
inspire more women to get involved That's under discussion tomorrow | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
on Good Morning Ulster. That's on Radio Ulster | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
starting at 6:30. A murder inquiry has begun | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
into the death of a man The 28-year-old man | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
died in hospital today. It was outside this bar | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
into an bridge that James McDonagh was attacked in the early hours | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
of yesterday morning. He suffered a head injury and was | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast in a critical | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
condition but never The 28-year-old from Castledawson | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
died this afternoon. Three men aged 54, 24 and 20, | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
who were arrested in the Toomebridge area last night, are still being | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
questioned by detectives. Police are appealing | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
for anyone who witnessed the assault around 2am | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
on Sunday to contact them. Work will start later this year | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
on a major improvement of the A6 - the main road between | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
Belfast and Londonderry. The Transport Minister Michelle | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
McIlveen has announced that work will begin this year on making | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
the section between Randalstown and Castledawson into | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
a dual carriageway. The news has been | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
welcomed by motorists. It is badly needed. That road is a | :10:43. | :10:58. | |
disaster. You have the end 22 and after that, nothing. It is a big | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
problem. Any time I have gone on it, it is a bottleneck. The money is | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
well spent and it should have been spent years ago. | :11:10. | :11:10. | |
Stormont ministers have agreed to spend the full ?1.3 million | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
of additional funding for flooding on preventative measures | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
30 properties were affected in the recent floods that affected | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
The three departments dealing with the recent flooding briefed | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
the Executive today and have been asked to bring detailed proposals | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
to the next Executive meeting later this month. | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
The weather is next. It is certainly the coldest week of | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
winter so far and it has allowed us to get some snowy pictures. This was | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
the more mountains over the weekend. Tonight we will continue to see a | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
scattering of showers along with the north-westerly wind and as | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
temperatures fall quite low, some of those showers will fall as sleet and | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
snow. Some areas may see a wintry mix. Quite a chilly start tomorrow | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
and will stay cold through the day. A scattering of showers will | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
continue along with the north-westerly wind and for the | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
north coast, feeling quite cold but it will break up through the day and | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
will improve but some heavy showers first thing across parts of Antrim | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
and down are likely. Some southern areas across Ireland and the south | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
of England not bad to begin with but as we make our way through the day, | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
the scattered showers pushing their way south and east. A mixture of | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
sunshine and showers further north but across Ireland, temperatures up | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
to five or 6 degrees but when you factor in the winds, it will feel | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
colder than that. We are looking at highs of six or maybe 7 degrees. It | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
is normal for the time of year. Most of the showers tomorrow evening die | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
away and it will be a cold night. Many areas will fall to freezing and | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
below so a chilly start of Wednesday. Through the day, | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
temperatures barely struggling at three or 4 degrees. Some of the wet | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
weather following as sleet or store. It will stay mixed until the end of | :13:08. | :13:09. | |
the week. Our next BBC Newsline | :13:10. | :13:10. | |
is at 6:25 in the morning So, no-one pays tax here? | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
No-one pays taxes. | :13:14. | :13:38. |