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The DUP leader Arlene Foster has said she would like to see | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
the scrapping of the Assembly's veto mechanism that has been used | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
by her party and others to block various legislation. | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
The petition of concern, as it is called, was originally | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
designed as a way to safeguard the rights of minorities but its use | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Our Political Correspondent Stephen Walker reports. | :00:26. | :00:32. | |
Under the Good Friday Agreement, and even in the Assembly | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Under the Good Friday Agreement, any vote in the Assembly | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
can be made dependent on the addition of concern. | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
It means emotion will only pass if it has cross community support. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
The purpose is to protect one community from legislation that | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Over a five-year period from 2011 to 2016, 115 petitions | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
The DUP sank 86 petitions, the SDLP and Sinn Fein assigned 29. | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
The DUP sank 86 petitions, the SDLP and Sinn Fein signed 29. | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
The Green party endorsed four, Alliance three, | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
Arlene Foster bid queer today what she wants to see happen. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
We talk a lot about the petition of concern and opponents talk a lot | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
We would like to see the petition of concern got rid of for everything | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
but our opponents would like to keep it for the things they want to use | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
What we need to talk about after the election | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
is getting rid of the petition of concern altogether. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Why has Arlene Foster said this today? | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
Tactically, it says they are prepared to recognise | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
that the party is behind the curve in relation to some issues. | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
Public opinion has advanced on these and they are intending to sell it | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
to the public as a sign that the DUP has become more modernised, | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
but it doesn't feel the need to use that particular device in order | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
to block progressive reform in Northern Ireland. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
The next Assembly will be 90 seats, which means securing a petition | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
of concern with 30 MLAs will be harder. | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
The procedure has come under scrutiny and the SDLP, the UUP, | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
Alliance and Sinn Fein have all called for reform. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
The DUP are well aware of how petitions of concern are perceived | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
in some quarters and this is the first time | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Arlene Foster has spoken about scrapping the procedure. | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
This development is significant because it opens up the debate | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
and gives us an indication of the level of detail that | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
will be on the negotiating table after the election. | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
The Secretary of State has rejected calls for him to step aside as chair | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
of any cross party talks after the Assembly election. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Sinn Fein and the SDLP have claimed that recent comments | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
from James Brokenshire on the Legacy of the Troubles mean he cannot be | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
The Mallard, I take responsibility for the UK Government are now look | :03:05. | :03:24. | |
forward to getting into discussions with parties immediately following | :03:25. | :03:33. | |
the election on 02 March, doing all I can to get involved into devolved | :03:34. | :03:48. | |
politics. I am very clear on legacy issues that what we need to do is | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
get on with delivering on Stormont house, by getting Legacy | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
institutions and running, and that remains my view, it remains very | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
much the view of the UK Government, and actually getting into | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
discussions so that we can take forward. | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
James Brokenshire speaking to our political editor | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
A councillor has resigned from the Ulster Unionist party | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
over her leader's voting tactics in the forthcoming | :04:20. | :04:20. | |
Mike Nesbitt said he would give his second preference vote to the SDLP | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Carol Black, a member of Armagh Banbridge | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
and Craigavon Council, said "the whole ethos of the party | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
The Ulster Unionist Group Leader on the council Jim Speers | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
said his party had a vision of Unionism that embraced everyone. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
He said clearly Carol Black did not subscribe to that, | :04:37. | :04:38. | |
The Ulster Unionist leader has denied he had made a mistake | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Mike Nesbitt was launching his party's election manifesto | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
as our political correspondent Gareth Gordon reports. | :04:46. | :04:55. | |
The Ulster Unionist Party wants this election to be a referendum on how | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
the DUP and Sinn Fein handled the RHI debacle. | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
The manifesto says it is a blueprint for real partnership. | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
But could their partnership with the SDLP and the party leader | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
saying he will give his second preference votes to that party | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
and not to the Unionists derail his campaign before | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
Mike Nesbitt spent much of the launch today | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
I am confident with my position and I am confident and relaxed that | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
people behind me are taking different positions | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
People will come back on the 2nd of March to thinking | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
about the 85,000 a day that is quite a bit smug. | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
The ten years of the DUP and Sinn Fein in that castle | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
no matter what anybody writes in the newspapers, | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Coastline south Danny Kennedy, the most senior of Mr Nisbet's | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
colleagues to disagree with them publicly. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
It was a it was reaffirming to know Danny was listening. | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
The manifesto talks about cleaning up Stormont, with greater | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
accountability for ministers and their special advisers. | :06:07. | :06:07. | |
The election of an Assembly Speaker by secret ballot, and to abuse | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
The election of an Assembly Speaker by secret ballot, an end to abuse | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
of the petition of concern, greater transparency over | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
To be in a position to do that, Mike Nesbitt said they would | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
still have to share power with nationalists, | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
The Ulster Unionists went into this election hoping | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
all the attention would be on the shortcomings of the DUP. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
They know that focus has now turned on them in a way | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
And the BBC Spotlight programme will be looking | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
at the future of the Assembly - that's immediately | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
The value of the average home in Northern Ireland increased by six | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
percent or about seven thousand pounds last year. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
variation with the most expensive council area being | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
The average property there is about one hundred and fifty | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
thousand pounds compared to one hundred and eight thousand | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
The Taoiseach Enda Kenny has told the Dail that a public tribunal | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
of inquiry will be set up to find out if senior Garda officers | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
orchestrated a smear campaign against a whistle-blower | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
It was recently revealed that false claims of child sexual abuse had | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
been made against the officer, Sergeant Maurice McCabe. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
During a debate on the controversy this afternoon the Sinn Fein | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
President Gerry Adams criticised the Republic's government | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
In response, Mr Kenny accused Mr Adams of being a "hypocrite". | :07:28. | :07:44. | |
You are an absolute hypocrite. After what you did and what you said to | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
the former senator. And what you did and did not do in respect to safe | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
houses, where sexual abuse was conducted by members of your | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
organisation. You are an absolute hypocrite. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
On tomorrow's BBC Newsline, we talk to the world motorcycling | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
This year, the Ballyclare rider will try to become | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
the first rider to win the World Superbike Championship | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
I won't be thinking about momentum or three in a row, think about this | :08:18. | :08:31. | |
as a New Year, new challenge, new arrivals. It's very exciting. | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
That's coming up tomorrow on BBC Newsline at 6:30pm. | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
Now here's Cecilia Daly with the weather forecast. | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
Looking milder for the rest of the week. Temperatures on the rise. Not | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
likely there will be frost over the next few nights. Most places | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
becoming dry for a while. Some breaks in the cloud. Some thicker | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
cloud and more rain and drizzle moving up from the south-west before | :08:54. | :09:02. | |
morning. Expects rain tomorrow. Keep your umbrella handy. It will start | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
fairly wet in many places with rain and drizzle. More on and off to the | :09:07. | :09:13. | |
first half of the morning. For many western areas of England, Wales and | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
Scotland, dull and damp. North-east Scotland looks like it should stay | :09:18. | :09:24. | |
fine to daylight hours. The Republic of Ireland will be brightening up at | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
times with a few showers. In Northern Ireland, some bright spells | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
around. More dry than wet weather. Ten or 11 degrees compares to seven | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
or eight today. Noticeably milder. Wet to start with on Thursday, but | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
brightening up for a while with some sunshine. Temperatures in double | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
figures. Changeable but mild through the rest of the week. | :09:53. | :09:56. |