:00:26. > :00:29.Hello, and welcome to Stormont Today.
:00:29. > :00:31.Bombs primed and ready to go were intercepted by police in
:00:32. > :00:39.Londonderry last night. Today, MLAs united in their condemnation in
:00:39. > :00:45.what the police described as a reckless attack. We were within
:00:45. > :00:47.five minutes or 10 minutes last night of a major out rage.
:00:47. > :00:54.Also the environment minister issues a warning about our
:00:54. > :00:58.dependence on imported energy. are in a situation in the north
:00:58. > :01:00.where, to borrow a phrase, we could reach a perfect storm.
:01:00. > :01:05.And our Political Correspondent, Martina Purdy, joins us with her
:01:05. > :01:08.analysis of today's events. It's being claimed it had the
:01:08. > :01:11.potential of causing mass murder, but instead a van carrying four
:01:11. > :01:21.live mortar bombs in Derry was intercepted by the police minutes
:01:21. > :01:22.
:01:22. > :01:29.before the explosives were launched. Today MLAs gave their reaction.
:01:29. > :01:38.work within five minutes or 10 minutes last night of a major out
:01:39. > :01:43.rage. How major it could have been can be established by recalling
:01:43. > :01:51.that in 1985 a similar mortar bomb attack occurred on a new re- police
:01:51. > :01:55.station and the end result was that nine innocent officers were
:01:55. > :02:00.murdered. -- new three. Any police station in Londonderry area, any of
:02:00. > :02:05.the ones that I can think of are all in built up areas. The police
:02:05. > :02:09.have indicated as we all know that these mortar bombs are notoriously
:02:09. > :02:14.unreliable so, not only were innocent police officers being
:02:14. > :02:21.targeted, but innocent civilians as well. I think we need to send out a
:02:21. > :02:26.message today that this Assembly, in its totality, utterly condemns
:02:26. > :02:30.the actions of those responsible last night, that we commend and
:02:30. > :02:37.thank the police service and the officers responsible for at
:02:37. > :02:42.pretending the device -- apprehending and we also call upon
:02:42. > :02:46.the community upon whose information we hope last night
:02:46. > :02:50.occurred, to keep giving more information like this so that the
:02:50. > :02:53.police can keep taking the action they are taking in order to prevent
:02:53. > :02:58.the wholesale slaughter that could have occurred last night and
:02:58. > :03:03.thankfully, bright the grace of God, did not. The vast majority of
:03:03. > :03:07.people in our city woke up this morning thankful, thankful that
:03:07. > :03:11.this institute -- incident through whatever intelligence sources had
:03:11. > :03:16.been stopped. People who are intent on damaging our city and our people
:03:16. > :03:23.meet today to step up to the plate, need to come to the microphones and
:03:23. > :03:29.explain to the people of this city, of our city, how those actions will
:03:29. > :03:36.advance any city, any people, any cause or advance or build any city
:03:36. > :03:41.of equals or any island of equals. There is huge relief in the City of
:03:41. > :03:46.Derry today that these instruments of death and destruction have been
:03:46. > :03:50.intercepted last night. Four craze -- fault raised and credit must go
:03:50. > :03:54.to the police for their brave and heroic actions. We shudder to think
:03:54. > :03:58.what may have happened otherwise but I have little doubt that we
:03:58. > :04:03.would have been waking today to news and scenes of carnage. I speak
:04:03. > :04:13.for Derry today when I condemn those who would visit this upon
:04:13. > :04:13.
:04:13. > :04:19.their -- who would visit this upon our society. We must drive us for
:04:19. > :04:27.it and not let others drag us back. I was relieved that the security
:04:27. > :04:31.services indicated that a mortar had come from the old IRA stopped
:04:31. > :04:35.and I challenge those from the Provisional IRA that may now be in
:04:35. > :04:40.Sinn Fein tour actually help the security services and bring forward
:04:40. > :04:44.the information that is required to actually help the security services
:04:44. > :04:49.and stop such actions as happened last night and insure that they
:04:49. > :04:53.give them every piece of information as possible. Let me be
:04:53. > :04:57.clear, some of those people know exactly where these items of
:04:57. > :05:04.munitions are. Some know exactly where these Explosives are and they
:05:04. > :05:09.should come forward and tell it. That is the out workings of the so-
:05:09. > :05:12.called de commissioning process, where are all these weapons that
:05:12. > :05:18.were decommissioned? I thought they were all out of commission but
:05:18. > :05:22.obviously not. Shame on those who are carrying these acts out now and
:05:22. > :05:27.shame on those who carried them out in the past. It is a clear this was
:05:27. > :05:30.a very major threat, threat to life, as has been said, not just two
:05:30. > :05:36.police officers against which it was almost certainly intended but
:05:36. > :05:38.also against civilians in heavily populated areas of Derry City. It
:05:39. > :05:43.is absolutely clear how utterly wrecked as those who would carry
:05:43. > :05:47.out such deeds are. There is no question of having any
:05:47. > :05:50.justification, there is no question of them having any support. It is
:05:50. > :05:54.time they listened to the voices that we heard so eloquently across
:05:54. > :05:57.the media this morning of condemnation of what went on of the
:05:57. > :06:01.people in and around the area that made it absolutely clear that those
:06:01. > :06:03.who carried out such deeds do not speak for them.
:06:03. > :06:06.The Justice Minister, David Ford. Although the house united in
:06:06. > :06:10.condemnation of the thwarted mortar attack, there was some dissent from
:06:10. > :06:11.the public gallery on another issue. Our Political Correspondent,
:06:12. > :06:14.Martina Purdy, is here with more details.
:06:14. > :06:19.So, Martina, this outburst took place after the discussion had
:06:19. > :06:25.moved on to Willie Frazer's bail application.
:06:25. > :06:29.Yes, the TUV leader Jim Allister rose to put a point of order.
:06:29. > :06:35.Basically he was unhappy that his matter of the day was not accepted.
:06:35. > :06:37.He wanted to talk about how the courts had been applying bail
:06:37. > :06:42.applications to loyalists and republicans. He got short shrift
:06:42. > :06:45.from the Speaker and was told to sit down. 10 later -- 10 minutes
:06:45. > :06:48.later there was a commotion from the public gallery. Most of it was
:06:48. > :06:53.inaudible but it was fairly clear that someone in the public gallery
:06:53. > :06:57.was tried to interrupt proceedings which has not allowed. Only MLAs
:06:57. > :07:00.are allowed to speak. People in the public gallery are any allowed to
:07:00. > :07:10.listen. The Speaker quickly clear the gallery and I think we have a
:07:10. > :07:12.
:07:12. > :07:15.short clip of this. Order! Order! Order! Order! Clear the gallery.
:07:15. > :07:21.That was the Deputy Speaker clearing the gallery. Who were the
:07:21. > :07:28.people up there? It transpired they were supporters of the flags
:07:28. > :07:32.protest a Willie Frazer. Some of them were members of a group
:07:32. > :07:36.including past a Barry Halliday. They were not expelled from
:07:36. > :07:39.Stormont. The last time we can recall the gallery being clear
:07:39. > :07:46.because of a protest was some time last year when an anti-capitalist
:07:46. > :07:49.protest or, he was actually a sold out egg -- expelled from the estate.
:07:49. > :07:54.Let's move on to talk about an intriguing story concerning the
:07:54. > :08:01.SDLP's Colum Eastwood and the Environment Committee. Colum
:08:01. > :08:06.Eastwood, it has transpired this evening, hasn't been attending the
:08:06. > :08:09.environment committee. He has only attended once since last September.
:08:09. > :08:14.He is not commenting but the BBC understands the difficulty is that
:08:14. > :08:17.Colum Eastwood is also the Assembly Private Secretary to the
:08:17. > :08:20.environment minister so he gets to see a lot of confidential and
:08:20. > :08:26.sensitive departmental information Andy believes it is a conflict of
:08:26. > :08:30.interest for him to do both jobs. But the difficult question is why
:08:30. > :08:35.has and the SDLP leader moved him off? I am told that Alistair
:08:35. > :08:37.McDonnell has been made aware of the difficulty but he has not moved
:08:37. > :08:41.Imam. Alistair MacDonald knows there is a potential conflict of
:08:41. > :08:44.interest and knows that column Eastwood would like to be relieved
:08:44. > :08:49.of his responsibilities and the committee but for some reason he
:08:49. > :08:55.has not done anything about it. Are we clear why the situation is as
:08:55. > :08:58.cities? The BBC understands that Alistair McDonnell was a form of
:08:58. > :09:02.the difficulty even before the appointment but appointed him to
:09:02. > :09:05.the committee anyway. In maybe there are a number of personnel
:09:05. > :09:09.thin on the ground and he did not have anyone else to put on the
:09:09. > :09:13.committee. But he does not seem to have taken this conflict of
:09:13. > :09:17.interest concerns seriously enough so far. What is the public position
:09:17. > :09:21.on this? The party is saying that the party leader will be reviewing
:09:21. > :09:24.the committees and will make sure there is no conflict of interest
:09:24. > :09:27.and there will probably be a reshuffle around Easter.
:09:27. > :09:30.Thank-you for now, Martina. A debate over a new Westminster
:09:30. > :09:33.bill descended into a squabble between Sinn Fein and the Deputy
:09:33. > :09:36.Speaker, John Dallat, today. Before the arguments began, Members had a
:09:36. > :09:39.chance to give their views on the draft bill which deals with issues
:09:39. > :09:47.like Stormont structures and party funding.
:09:47. > :09:51.It is a bill which is currently -- which has carried constituted, I
:09:51. > :09:56.believe lacks a certain ambition. We should be more ambitious on
:09:56. > :09:59.calling on the Secretary of State to take those steps towards
:09:59. > :10:03.normalisation. The biggest and most significant step she could take his
:10:03. > :10:07.in supporting the establishment of official opposition in this house,
:10:07. > :10:11.an opposition will to the institutions of devolution. What
:10:11. > :10:15.would that mean? It would not mean a return to majority rule. The
:10:15. > :10:20.Ulster Unionist Party is clear that if we do introduce an official
:10:20. > :10:25.opposition that you will still need a cross-community government. An
:10:25. > :10:28.official opposition would offer a choice and it would be given some
:10:28. > :10:33.resources. We are not talking about a party walking away from executive,
:10:33. > :10:37.as some of my former colleagues promoted, we are talking about the
:10:37. > :10:41.establishment of an official, recognised opposition. It means the
:10:41. > :10:48.same as what happens in Dublin and London and Cardiff and Edinburgh by
:10:48. > :10:54.calling the Secretary of State to review her draft bill. She should
:10:54. > :10:59.push ahead on this huge step towards normalisation. Karen in
:10:59. > :11:04.members of this House must report to the electoral commission details
:11:04. > :11:07.of any payments over �1,500. Political parties in Northern
:11:07. > :11:12.Ireland at to contribute information to the commission about
:11:12. > :11:16.donations of over �7,500 from a single source. The names of donors
:11:16. > :11:20.are not made public as they are in the rest of the United Kingdom. In
:11:21. > :11:24.April of last year my party colleague Naomi Long MP asked the
:11:24. > :11:29.Prime Minister to commit to changing the legislation, to make
:11:29. > :11:32.local parties publish their list of significant donors. We believe that
:11:32. > :11:36.the public in Northern Ireland should have access to the same
:11:36. > :11:42.information as people in England, Scotland and Wales. How about
:11:42. > :11:46.political parties and how political parties are funded and who their
:11:46. > :11:50.major donors are. The public and then judge to themselves whether
:11:50. > :11:54.these donors will have any undue influence on party policy. We
:11:54. > :11:58.cannot, on the one hand, talk about normalisation and tell people that
:11:58. > :12:03.Northern Ireland has transformed into a safe destination for inward
:12:04. > :12:07.investment and tourism and require companies to publish their accounts,
:12:07. > :12:12.details of their directors and shareholders, and on the other hand
:12:12. > :12:17.use of security concerns as a reason to avoid being transparent
:12:17. > :12:21.about party political donations. do not have to - but we do not wish
:12:21. > :12:24.to have a return to majority rule. It is an argument we have made and
:12:24. > :12:29.we do not want that. We have outlined where we think we can
:12:29. > :12:35.reach some sort of consensus. That ensures that a minority community
:12:35. > :12:37.is always going to be protected. It may develop a better form of
:12:37. > :12:46.democracy than currently exists in this place and nothing that is
:12:46. > :12:49.something that should be explored. I listened to the lyrical waxing of
:12:49. > :12:53.- a waxing lyrical of how they are not for majority rule yet we have
:12:53. > :12:57.to look at how the abused power in the Assembly commission in a
:12:57. > :13:00.desperate attempt in the recent flags debacle. I would be
:13:00. > :13:05.interested to see what the members opposite can actually do to
:13:05. > :13:11.reassure people from the nationalist republican community on
:13:11. > :13:18.how they would ensure a quality, given the sad record over the last
:13:18. > :13:24.number of years. Were you betide anyone to lecture others about
:13:24. > :13:29.equality after judgments made against senior members. Also in
:13:29. > :13:36.relation to transparency, given many of their members stated dual
:13:36. > :13:40.membership of an organisation which extorts it hundreds of thousands of
:13:40. > :13:44.pounds from the community that we all represent here in this house.
:13:44. > :13:50.Coming back to Sinn Fein, I do have to say that they never cease to
:13:50. > :13:55.amaze me. They never cease to surprise me with their attitude.
:13:55. > :13:59.Openness and transparency? Maybe you can tell us whether �26 million
:13:59. > :14:03.has gone from the northern bank robbery? Maybe they could tell us
:14:03. > :14:07.where some of those bodies are buried that their comrades in arms
:14:07. > :14:16.in the IRA buried and have disappeared? Maybe they could tell
:14:16. > :14:21.us some of those action that they carried out since 1970? It is not
:14:21. > :14:27.for me to tell the chair his responsibility but in terms of Sinn
:14:27. > :14:33.Fein I disagree with some of Commons that have been made. It is
:14:33. > :14:38.not your place to tell the chair. Can I remind a member, please, and
:14:38. > :14:48.this is the second time, that he has an important asked to sum up
:14:48. > :14:53.
:14:53. > :14:57.the debate and stick rigidly to wit. You did not need to remind the
:14:57. > :15:02.chair because I was discussing it with my clerks. It is a serious
:15:02. > :15:06.offence to challenge the church. colleague raised a point of order
:15:06. > :15:09.on the basis there had been no intervention from the Deputy
:15:09. > :15:15.Speaker on this occasion were asked a number of scurrilous remarks were
:15:15. > :15:21.made by a member against our party. As far as I am concerned, I stand
:15:21. > :15:24.by my colleagues need to get up on our behalf to make an intervention.
:15:24. > :15:27.Whether that is revising or reminding is a moot point but I
:15:27. > :15:31.would ask you to reflect on the fact that it took a member from
:15:31. > :15:34.this side of the piles on behalf of our party to make an intervention
:15:34. > :15:38.before the matter was dealt with and I think that was regrettable
:15:38. > :15:43.and not acceptable. It is important for the member to accept and
:15:43. > :15:47.understand that I was in the process of doing that. I was about
:15:47. > :15:50.to remind Mr Elliott that he should not make remarks about a political
:15:50. > :16:00.party in connection with bank robberies and other things for
:16:00. > :16:17.
:16:17. > :16:24.Does the Minister except that there are significant changes -- chances
:16:24. > :16:27.in losing too many presents staff within a short timescale?
:16:27. > :16:36.member certainly has a point about that and that is why there has been
:16:36. > :16:39.some difficulty with some staff. Staff are not being released
:16:39. > :16:43.without it being acceptable on operational grounds that they are
:16:43. > :16:49.able to be released. I am glad to confirm that we have received
:16:49. > :16:52.approval from the park -- department of finance which all are
:16:52. > :16:55.all those who were granted the scheme to leave. Some funding has
:16:56. > :16:59.been released which will allow some to leave at the end of this month.
:16:59. > :17:02.Others will be raising as -- leaving as operational
:17:02. > :17:07.circumstances permit. There is an issue about the loss of experience
:17:07. > :17:11.staff, there is also an issue of them being replaced by well-
:17:11. > :17:15.qualified, enthusiastic, well- trained new staff and I believe
:17:15. > :17:21.that the prison second month -- service will be better for it.
:17:21. > :17:25.the Minister agree with me that too often tackling hate crime is
:17:25. > :17:32.undermined because we have no legislative definition of
:17:32. > :17:35.sectarianism in relation to hate crime? I think the Member raises an
:17:35. > :17:45.interesting issue about the difficulty of ensuring that we get
:17:45. > :17:51.there necessary definition of the crime. I am not sure that the
:17:51. > :17:56.defining of sectarianism as opposed to the improving of sectarianism is
:17:56. > :17:59.the difficult issue that has to be crossed. When the Justice Bill was
:17:59. > :18:09.being debated in the last assembly we were unable to reach that
:18:09. > :18:18.
:18:18. > :18:22.agreement. In interest of prisoners and the families of prisoners, when
:18:22. > :18:28.we they -- where the prisoners are housed actually be a matter with
:18:28. > :18:36.some empathy with their families in terms of travel time? Deputy
:18:36. > :18:44.Speaker, I am certainly well aware of their issues. In certain
:18:44. > :18:49.circumstances there are a number of prisoners that have to be housed at
:18:49. > :18:53.at prison whose families do not necessarily live near by. A
:18:53. > :18:57.statement will be made in a couple of weeks' time. The Minister will
:18:57. > :19:00.not that there is over 1,000 prisoners in that prison, which is
:19:00. > :19:04.already struggling with a capacity issues there, and that hundreds of
:19:04. > :19:13.prisoners are already doubled up and yet the demand on the
:19:13. > :19:18.republican side is to take the other landings. Will he assure us
:19:18. > :19:25.that he will take action against those who are considered -- to
:19:25. > :19:28.continue to demand special status. It is not for me to either resist
:19:28. > :19:33.our support demands for separated accommodation. Those are issues
:19:33. > :19:36.which he might wish to raise what the Secretary of State. What I will
:19:36. > :19:40.ensure is that the accommodation pressures are managed as best they
:19:40. > :19:46.can be in the interest of all prisoners, and that provides a wide
:19:46. > :19:48.variety of different categories of prisoners currently there. A how
:19:49. > :19:58.much it 10 JUN did you pay in size class and more to the.
:19:58. > :20:06.How much do you think our politicians know? -- how much
:20:06. > :20:16.attention DTP. What is this all about? There was a
:20:16. > :20:16.
:20:17. > :20:21.bit all The Geek Manifesto which was published last year. It was
:20:21. > :20:31.published by Mike Henderson. The thesis of the because that the
:20:31. > :20:36.
:20:36. > :20:44.demographic of the key -- they geek is people who ogres on things that
:20:44. > :20:54.rabbit different to other parts of the world. Was their way of getting
:20:54. > :20:54.
:20:54. > :21:00.this information about this large demographic of people who are
:21:00. > :21:03.voters. You like the ideas of evidence based decision-making. Is
:21:04. > :21:09.there any evidence that you have to show that our MLAs do not know
:21:09. > :21:12.about science? You might look it ever politics and say that there is
:21:13. > :21:17.a lot of evidence for that particular assertion, but one may
:21:17. > :21:22.be badly placed if one was trying to say that our MLAs are not trying
:21:22. > :21:26.to take care of this. They are a lot of decisions which had been
:21:26. > :21:29.taken that we think have been influenced by the evidence. A lot
:21:29. > :21:34.of them at least have made lip- service to science and scientific
:21:34. > :21:40.advice. We're hoping that people will use sounds much more
:21:40. > :21:45.explicitly and evidence much more explicitly. It is a very expensive
:21:45. > :21:50.structure here. MLAs have researchers paid for out of the
:21:50. > :21:53.public purse. Ministers have special advisers who are paid a
:21:53. > :21:57.very handsome salary. They are there to help and that of research
:21:57. > :22:00.and policy making process. That is correct and one would be making a
:22:00. > :22:04.mistake of one said that there was not a good job being done there.
:22:04. > :22:09.There is a lot more to be done and in particular there is still this
:22:10. > :22:12.very strong insistence and emphasis on what would largely be seen as
:22:13. > :22:17.the arts and humanities side of things, which is very important and
:22:17. > :22:20.vital, but we would like to see signs as a much more explicit part
:22:20. > :22:25.of the cultural discourse and part of the decision-making process up
:22:25. > :22:35.front. Some will tell you that politics is an art and not a
:22:35. > :22:38.science? Some people tell you that art is a science. It is a skilled.
:22:38. > :22:42.It has a huge potential to revolutionise our economy. Our
:22:42. > :22:47.background, environment, health, so many aspects in which science is
:22:47. > :22:53.important and we would like to see people emphasise that more. That is
:22:53. > :22:57.some thought for bedtime reading. Thank you very much.
:22:57. > :23:01.Northern Ireland potentially faces a perfect storm which threatens its
:23:01. > :23:04.energy supply, the Environment Minister told the chamber this
:23:04. > :23:08.afternoon. In order to guarantee self-sufficiency exploiting
:23:08. > :23:17.renewable sources is essential. This is a very important question
:23:17. > :23:20.indeed. I keep saying that in my judgment renewables is arguably
:23:20. > :23:24.Ireland's biggest economic opportunity. That includes Northern
:23:24. > :23:28.Ireland because of our wind and wave and tidal power. And because
:23:28. > :23:33.of the quality of the manufacturing and services that we could provide
:23:33. > :23:37.in terms of a renewable applications. The answer to the
:23:38. > :23:45.question is that on average it takes 37 weeks to process a
:23:45. > :23:49.renewable application. 37 weeks. In my view that is too long. When you
:23:49. > :23:54.look especially in the last 18 months at the scale of renewable
:23:54. > :24:01.applications that have gone to the point of decision compared with any
:24:01. > :24:06.time here to four, I think that tells a much bigger and better
:24:06. > :24:12.story. And the last two quarters a lawn, in the quarter up until 20th
:24:13. > :24:21.September 12, they were 326 renewable applications approved.
:24:21. > :24:29.That builds upon the 401 renewable applications approved in 2011-2012.
:24:29. > :24:37.Find excess of previous years. Thank you. I'm sure the Minister is
:24:37. > :24:41.aware of the 40 % target for renewable electricity. Is he aware
:24:41. > :24:48.that there are expects to think that the first 20 resent will come
:24:48. > :24:53.at a cost of �80 million, the second at the cost of �800 million.
:24:53. > :24:57.Does he feel that the consumer should foot the bill? That is an
:24:57. > :25:06.important question. Whilst we are on track to achieve a 40 %
:25:06. > :25:10.renewable target by 2020, if all the wind approvals to date that had
:25:10. > :25:16.been built and consented to were actually constructed and then went
:25:16. > :25:22.into an National Grid, that alone in 2013 would account for her 30 %
:25:22. > :25:27.of our energy renewable -- electricity needs in the north. We
:25:27. > :25:36.are on the right path, but the member needs -- makes two valid
:25:36. > :25:40.points in my view. The first is that if you have a pre-payments --
:25:40. > :25:45.approvals or if the cost of connections is disproportionate,
:25:45. > :25:51.then there will be a rest of the 40 % not been achieved by 2020. We are
:25:51. > :26:01.in a situation in the north where, to borrow a phrase, we could reach
:26:01. > :26:05.a Perfect Storm. A Perfect Storm in that we will not have on the island
:26:05. > :26:09.of Ireland, sufficient interconnection, and this is only
:26:09. > :26:12.one of the factors that would lead to a Perfect Storm, sufficient
:26:12. > :26:20.interconnection in order to keep the lights on when it comes to
:26:20. > :26:23.Northern Ireland. This would be an issue of energy cost, the cost of
:26:23. > :26:27.connection with renewables, which is a one about which we need to
:26:27. > :26:31.more collectively gather were thoughts. In connection to the time
:26:31. > :26:37.that it takes far an application to go through for a wind turbine,
:26:37. > :26:42.applicants at this point in time appear to consider that there is a
:26:42. > :26:47.considerable amount of delay in terms of one of the Council teas.
:26:47. > :26:54.Given that that is within the Minister's we met in his department,
:26:54. > :26:59.could he in sure that that process is speeded up? It used beat the
:26:59. > :27:03.renewable energy industry they will tell you that at any time up until
:27:03. > :27:08.now given the scale of the renewable applications that run the
:27:08. > :27:12.system, and these cover nine categories, not just wind farms,
:27:12. > :27:20.but solar plants and so on and so forth, they will tell you that
:27:20. > :27:23.given that historic that Lord and given the surge of applications,
:27:24. > :27:28.particularly for a wind turbines. The fact that so many are now
:27:28. > :27:32.coming to the point of decision, especially in the last four
:27:32. > :27:37.quarters, is actually demonstrable of the fact that the planning
:27:37. > :27:42.system is more and more managing that scale of applications and
:27:43. > :27:46.getting decisions out. Martina Purdy is with us again.
:27:46. > :27:50.First of all, I do have some news on the next meeting between the
:27:50. > :27:56.Prime Minister and a were first and Deputy First Ministers. Peter
:27:56. > :28:03.Robinson and Martin McGuinness will go to Downing Street on March 26th,
:28:03. > :28:07.to meet David Cameron. They want to lower corporation tax to give
:28:07. > :28:12.Northern Ireland a competitive edge. It is controversial and will
:28:12. > :28:15.require a political decision from the Prime Minister. Finally, it is
:28:15. > :28:18.likely to delight the tomorrow as far as business is concerned
:28:18. > :28:23.because the justice minister is not proceeding with the next stage of
:28:23. > :28:29.his bill. The Criminal Justice Bill was supposed to have its further
:28:29. > :28:39.consideration stage tomorrow but it was not -- there was not the