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If yesterday's proceedings amounted to blowing the whistle | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
on normal play at Stormont, then today was definitely injury time. | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
With Sinn Fein members largely absent and business lacking any | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
real sense of urgency, it seemed the parties had at least | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
one eye on March 2nd. But, despite that, the RHI | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
controversy did still make its way on to the agenda for the day. | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
So, tonight, the opposition calls for a public inquiry, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
Accountability is a very important principle in public life. | :00:52. | :01:08. | |
One veteran politician gives his verdict on the last | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
This is that we the assembly aims, but with a dwindling amount of | :01:11. | :01:23. | |
interest. And joining me with his thoughts | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
on a much quieter day in the chamber is the | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
commentator Chris Donnelly. After postponing the debate | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
on the Economy Minister's plan to mitigate the projected cost | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
of the Renewable Heat Incentive for a public inquiry. | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
today formally called But not all parties | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
were represented in the chamber. Accountability is a very important | :01:41. | :01:54. | |
principle in public life. It is the norm around the world except here. | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
It seems a minister will not take responsibility for a disaster. This | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
calls for the First Minister to stand aside for the duration of the | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
enquiry. The format for the enquiry will seek to have cost recovery for | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
these claims which turned out to be fraudulent. The enquiry should take | :02:22. | :02:34. | |
no more than six months. That is plausible, with updates at two | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
monthly intervals. It should be approved by ministers within the | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
assembly. Sinn Fein have taken the action they have taken because they | :02:48. | :02:56. | |
want to bring down this assembly. They are getting a part-time the | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
heartlands, or should I see the former heartlands. Let's be honest, | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
everyone knows this, everyone watching knows this, if they were | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
really concerned about these issues, they would have been here yesterday | :03:13. | :03:23. | |
and here today. The public by a percentage are overwhelmingly | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
telling me that we have detailed the truth. Having told the truth, he | :03:28. | :03:42. | |
would be sitting beside me. Everyone is entitled to a public enquiry. I | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
do not mind which Minister brings it. But it is an ex-minister of Sinn | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
Fein who is not here this morning. But the actual thing is to do the | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
right thing. The great thing is to have that enquiry. It is still not | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
too late to have it. You can call that enquiry today. The ministers | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
can set that enquiry up. It does not require the consent of your | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
partners. If we were to do that, you would supported. I wanted the public | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
enquiry in accordance with the motion in front of the house today. | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
The motion calls for the ministers to bring forward the plan to lessen | :04:32. | :04:40. | |
liability to the public purse. Arlene Foster Said I want to make | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
sure that there is not a potential overspend. I hope the Minister will | :04:48. | :04:56. | |
continue to stand by that commitment. We are happy for a | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
public enquiry. I do not want a public enquiry on the nature of | :05:06. | :05:19. | |
Chilcot or Savile. We want an enquiry but we want it done quickly. | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
We do not want this having things imposed on us by people who opposed | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
Arlene Foster. She is far too decent for that and too much liked by the | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
public. You want to get rid of her because she is good at what she | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
does. Edwin Poots, speaking up | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
for his party leader Arlene Foster, and that motion was passed | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
on an oral vote. More RHI in the chamber today - | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
and agreement on the way forward Obviously, Sinn Fein were not | :05:56. | :06:09. | |
present, but all the other parties had committed to some sort of | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
enquiry. I think we saw Mr rehearsal on what we are going to hear the | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
theme of the RHI scheme during the election. Also, it seems that there | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
is a change of tack from the DUP. But, of course, Sinn Fein, | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
decided not to get involved Part of that, they did wanted to be | :06:41. | :06:52. | |
the story. I think it was more about a statement that we are demeaning | :06:53. | :07:03. | |
the legitimacy of the institution and we have called for the | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
resignation of the First Minister. They recognise that the public would | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
want to see that the ministers are still interested. We will talk about | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
later. Thank you. Yesterday, James Brokenshire | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
was very much at the centre of things on this | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
side of the Irish Sea. Today, he was back in Westminster, | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
briefing MPs on the current | :07:31. | :07:32. | |
state of play here. For our part, we will continue to | :07:33. | :07:43. | |
stand by our part of the deal fast agreement and do everything we can | :07:44. | :07:51. | |
to safeguard political stability. -- Belfast agreement. It has not always | :07:52. | :08:01. | |
been easy with more than a few bumps on the road but with strong | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
leadership, issues which might have brought the institution Stone have | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
been resolved through dialogue. Northern Ireland has been able to | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
present itself to the world in a wave which would've been | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
unrecognisable a few years ago -- a modern dynamic and outward looking | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
and Ireland which is a great place to live, work invest in and do | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
business with. The country has come so far and we cannot allow the games | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
to be made to be derailed. Yes, we have an election and once that is | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
over we need to be in a position to continue building a Northern Ireland | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
that works for everybody. That is the responsibility on all of us and | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
we all need to raise to that challenge. Does he accept that the | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
problem remains that calling a public enquiry into the RHI scheme | :09:01. | :09:10. | |
order photo making it clear that he supports a public enquiry, public | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
confidence will sink even lower than make restoration of the executive | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
even more difficult. That is what people are telling me on the street. | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
The basically need clarity. We are having an election here any fog. It | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
is clear that the issues surrounding the RHI scheme are largely central | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
to the election being cold. It is critical with regard to establishing | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
confidence once again with the public in relation to what has taken | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
place. Could the Secretary of State confirm that post-election, the | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
framework of a dissolve the assembly, of the is the settled | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
framework for moving forward and that joint authority with the | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Republic Ireland or renegotiation of the agreements in place do not form | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
part of his plan for moving forward. If he does not give certain | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
particular, for the draft will orca. I can see that that is absolutely | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
the approach they take to this. It is about getting through the | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
election and the re-establishment of the executive and the | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
re-establishment of devolved government. How I hear all the broad | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
discussions, that has to be the focus. We need to re-establish the | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
trust in the institutions we have saw the country can move forward. | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
The Secretary of State, making it clear he wants to see Stormont | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
up and running again after the election. | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
Chris, the big question is, how easy will that be to achieve? | :11:04. | :11:05. | |
Because it looks as though Sinn Fein wants big changes | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
before it will agree to rejoining a devolved administration. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
I think he is definitely the most prominent Secretary of State to say | :11:15. | :11:26. | |
a few no. Now we have the collapse of the institutions, it looks as if | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
Sinn Fein, if not renegotiating previous agreements, are looking for | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
some clarity in that regard. They may be want these to be | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
front-loaded. That is clearly something that the DUP will be | :11:47. | :11:57. | |
looking to resist. It does look like some form of direct rule is on the | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
cards. Could we be looking | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
at a prolonged period of direct It is certainly on the case that | :12:08. | :12:23. | |
National Assembly Irish government are wanting more involvement in the | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
talks which will have to take place with regard to Brexit. Obviously, in | :12:26. | :12:38. | |
the past, the British woman has resisted Irish involvement in any | :12:39. | :12:39. | |
discussions. Meantime, while Sinn Fein MLAs | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
had absented themselves from the morning's business, | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
the Infrastructue Minister, Chris Hazzard did put | :12:47. | :12:47. | |
in an appearance, It | :12:48. | :13:01. | |
department solves every problem with every rural road, so we have to | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
prioritise. When it comes to schools, we want to repeal the writ | :13:09. | :13:17. | |
which has the shortest distance. Schools go above what is above them, | :13:18. | :13:26. | |
but that, cannot be up around every corner to solve them. We have been | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
fairly fortunate so far that the weather has been mild, but we have | :13:33. | :13:42. | |
invested millions of pounds in sorting out the network you be | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
rejoining the budget of hundreds of millions of pounds if we were to | :13:46. | :14:04. | |
properly do it. The A5 and A6. Can he assure the construction industry | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
that the proposed road works and improvements on these will happen. | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
It is very clear that the funding is in place going forward. As Minister, | :14:15. | :14:27. | |
I have left clear instructions with regard to the executive power | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
priority projects, such as the A5 and A6. With the number of | :14:33. | :14:44. | |
departmental board 's priorities, a recently published my decision to | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
accept the independent factors report. We will begin to gauge with | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
the community the number of issues we are having which have arisen from | :14:55. | :14:55. | |
that. For tourism and commuters, will | :14:56. | :15:08. | |
there be a time schedule outlined? There are a number of issues making | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
it difficult to outline a very accurate timescale in relation to | :15:13. | :15:14. | |
moving forward with the York Street Interchange, not least the funding | :15:15. | :15:22. | |
difficulties that we faced. I would suggest have been exacerbated by the | :15:23. | :15:24. | |
Prime Minister Barak statement today, around Brexit, and it is very | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
clear we are heading for a very hard Brexit, in any rate. The member can | :15:28. | :15:35. | |
say here, here, till the cows come home, but when farmers lose out on | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
various grounds for various things the cows will be coming home to an | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
empty shed because at the end of the day we are able to facilitate... | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
Right enough. Europe has been good to hear two-year research projects, | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
at the end of the day, and it is one such project that has suffered at | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
the hands of Brexit, and cheers at the other side of the house, that of | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
the situation we have found. warning of | :16:05. | :16:05. | |
the implications of Brexit. The Justice Minister also | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
faced her final Question Time of the mandate today | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
and she was asked about the mistakes made in the | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
investigation of the murder Earlier this month, it was revealed | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
that 40-year-old Damien McLaughlin, who is charged in connection | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
with the murder, has breached his bail conditions | :16:22. | :16:23. | |
and not been seen by police The DUP MLA Trevor Clarke asked the | :16:24. | :16:25. | |
Justice Minister about the matter. I would like to begin by expressing | :16:26. | :16:35. | |
my heartfelt sympathy to the family of David Black, no one should have | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
to endure what they have done and I have spoken to the family over the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
past week in relation to events reported in the media. The | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
monitoring of bail conditions of the matter for the Belize and while the | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
PSNI falls on the remit of my department, they have only | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
operational autonomy. Consequently it would be inappropriate for me to | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
interfere with that and therefore cannot involve myself in individual | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
cases or operational cases. I understand the PSNI has issued an | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
unequivocal apology to the black family, and commissioned a review of | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
the processes and I agree with their ascension that all sectors should | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
reflect. This is a failure. This is a hireling embarrassing and | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
representable act, that this may have involved this man, and I think | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
to apologise to the family of Mr Black isn't enough, so I am asking | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
the Minister can I ask again to review a decision? In terms of my | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
decision, as I said, it's not a decision that operationally rests | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
with me, it ultimately is with the courts and PSNI, with bail. That | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
said, I'm appalled by what has happened and I'm not scared to | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
Sayed, even though it is outside my jurisdiction in this matter. I have | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
made my feelings clear to the Chief Constable how this has been allowed | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
to happen, so I can give the member assurance that I do have a focus on | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
this particular issue, to try and ensure that it won't happen again, | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
we have in terms of the bail review, something ongoing within my | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
department since October. It is something that I have asked my | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
officials in light of this, and I say that reluctantly, because it | :18:20. | :18:21. | |
should not be in light of this because this should not have | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
happened, but I have asked my department to expedite it in any way | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
they can that can give comfort to black family because... The black | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
family have gone through enough, and this will keep continuing to raise | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
those issues with him Billy Mack them, and it is devastating and I | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
think we need to do generally start putting victims Hirst that are | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
victims first here, too insecure that they are being put first. Does | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
the Minister agree that this is a shocking indictment of our criminal | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
justice system about that when someone charged with aiding and | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
abetting one of the most horrendous murders of recent years was treated | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
with such kid gloves by the system, or by the courts, through serial | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
relaxations of his bail removed to tagging restraint, reduced the | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
number of days he had to sign, allowed him out to attend hotel spa | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
weekends... And then surprise surprise, he skipped bail, and the | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
police don't discover it for over a month. Could they be a more shocking | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
indictment? Can the Minister tell us, have any lessons being learned? | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
Both by the judiciary, who are not above reproof in this matter and the | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
police. Have any real lessons being learned? Is she satisfied about | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
that? Again, I am appalled that this particular case. And have any | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
lessons being learned that might if they haven't been, Mrs Biggar, then | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
there's that we should be and I think that's all I can say, without | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
reiterating. Claire Sugden accepting | :20:00. | :20:00. | |
the shortcomings of the system. A late addition to the day's | :20:01. | :20:02. | |
business was an urgent oral question about the future of a GP | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
practice in Portadown, Bannview Medical Practice has 5,200 | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
patients on its books, but now faces closure, after its | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
last remaining doctor resigned. The fifth January 2017, a new GP | :20:14. | :20:26. | |
contract confirms to the health and social care board that they would | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
take on the band view medical practice from early March 20 17. -- | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Bannview Medical Practice. Yesterday, officially that | :20:36. | :20:36. | |
contractor withdrew their intention to take on the practice. What is | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
your response to the anger of the patients in Portadown, and was the | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
contract signed as a stalling tactic because of the organised patients | :20:48. | :20:54. | |
rally? I can say to all patients that they will continue to use | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
receive safe clinical services and the board will monitor that. We have | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
in place medical and nursing cover, we have arrangements with other | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
practices, in terms of out of hours independent prescribers. All work | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
collectively as part of a team to make sure that patients have access | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
to first is deeply services which they rightly are entitled to. I | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
think it is important that we don't scaremonger, it is important that we | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
are responsible about this. What I will ensure and the board have been | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
asked to do is to direct every member of the surgery to make sure | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
that they are fully abreast of the situation,. The macro to say we are | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
extremely disappointed, is an understatement. It isn't | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
scaremongering. I am sad that this is left on the DUP. I have supported | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
you as chair of this committee, we have all decided to take the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
politics out of health and I still want to take out at the politics. We | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
are at the end of the road when it comes to did you beat writers, | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
especially in Portadown, but not only that, this week my colleague | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
and I are meeting with a GP practice in west Belfast a Belfast issue now | :22:01. | :22:08. | |
as well. Actually believe I'd and very much behind taking the politics | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
out of the situation. The reality is... The reality is for all the | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
people do have confidence, more transformation is the happen, | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
companies need to be having the institutions, that health decisions | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
are being taken by the right reason, and they need to know that the | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
ministers taking the decisions had a quality, report, and integrity and | :22:30. | :22:34. | |
respect the -- dins disrespect... The backbenches can chapel they | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
wish. The reason we are in the situation is because the DUP | :22:39. | :22:39. | |
arrogance. Pure and simple. Michelle O'Neill single-handedly | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
facing down her critics The final serious piece of business | :22:42. | :22:43. | |
today perhaps best reflected the situation Stormont now | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
finds itself in. The opposition parties brought | :22:47. | :22:48. | |
a motion recognising The DUP opposed it and Sinn Fein | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
did not turn up for it. That kind of sums it up in terms of | :22:51. | :23:04. | |
how Sinn Fein, and the DUP can I have run government. For the last | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
ten years. Protect the individuals, protect the parties, never mind the | :23:10. | :23:18. | |
country. This is ten years of failure. Of scandals, of debacle, of | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
disappointment. I hope the people have had enough. I hope the people | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
say on the 2nd of March we will look to parties who want to put the | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
country first, ahead of the party, and ahead of the individuals within | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
that party. Ultimately, for power-sharing to work it is more | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
than simply the right institutional design them and we can forge you | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
make improvements in that regard but other leader has TB trust, | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
partnership and mutual respect, and most clearly we do not have that. | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
Whatsoever. We have instead dysfunction, characterised by | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
bickering, political instability, ultimately to the situation to you | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
today where institutions are seriously imperilled. It is | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
profoundly sad that it has come to this. But I think we need to be | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
honest. The reason why we are at this point is because one party, | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
Sinn Fein, did not like the outcome of the election, and they saw, in | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
RHI, an opportunity to have a rerun. They haven't been talking... There | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
haven't been talking about RHI, they've been listing various | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
nationalist and republican totems in the run into the election, and we | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
will face them on those issues and we will prevail in the election. We | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
are here to talk about the failure of the Executive, and all you had to | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
do is look around. I don't even need to make a speech to illustrate the | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
failure of this executive. But I will give it a go. It is utterly | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
surreal what has gone on in this building today. The oxygen has been | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
dragged out of this place. The public are just bemused and people | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
keep talking about the anger out on the streets. People aren't angry, Mr | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
Deputy Speaker, they are utterly furious that we have got to this | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
point. Strange atmosphere around the base today, and I have noticed it | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
since we came in as one. You wouldn't know what to make of it, Mr | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
Debord is big. The debating of Sinn Fein's benches, they have always | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
bounced around, there's never any one on the DUP benches... We at only | :25:37. | :25:45. | |
in a vacuum. This is the way the assembly ends. You know, if not with | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
a bang with a sort of whimpering and innuendo. We slink away. Achieving | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
what question not having achieving what? Nothing for them. For them, | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
strategic decision they have decided Stormont is over. The only thing | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
that will bring them back here is if the continuance of Stormont so | :26:10. | :26:14. | |
serves their ends because the DUP decides after the election for the | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
sake of office to fill Sinn Fein's boots with more concessions. Yes, | :26:19. | :26:25. | |
you can have a Stormont under mandatory coalition if you are | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
willing to pay that impossible price, and Sinn Fein is testing you. | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
To see just how desperate you are to hang on to power. | :26:36. | :26:36. | |
And Chris Donnelly joins me for a final word. | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
Eamonn McCann talked about | :26:41. | :26:41. | |
"a whimpering diminuendo of interest". | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
No-one up here today could have been in any doubt we are heading | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
No, there's no doubt, and as a matter of interest there was one | :26:48. | :26:59. | |
political party, Sinn Fein, singularly not present, most of the | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
Brits in vain representatives clearly hitting the ground. Most of | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
the selection conventions have taken place, the running registry | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
campaign. Some of the other parties think that Sinn Fein have caught a | :27:11. | :27:13. | |
march on them and they won't be long behind in catching up, now. It is | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
interesting that that that two People | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
Before Profit candidates will be running in West Belfast. | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
What do you make of that? with seats going down from 60 to | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
256, it means that for Sinn Fein to hold onto therefore, people bought | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
for their profits, and SDLP and it would her to lose out. Both of those | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
candidates when you consider that there is a large unionist | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
population, and not enough to have one quota, but enough to be | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
kingmaker. I think it is likely that there is going to be one People | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
Before Profit in Jerry Kyle, and one other, whether it will be Alex | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
outwards, or another People Before Profit, who knows? I would think it | :27:57. | :28:00. | |
is more likely to be Alex Attwood, there isn't a second candidate who | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
has a profile in the constituency at the moment. Claire Sugden cleared | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
today, hoping to be back after the election, independence, East | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
Londonderry, of course. Maybe a justice minister once again? There | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
is no doubt that her profile has been raised to to the fact that she | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
felt though rolled I think it is extremely unlikely that she would | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
get that role again. Really when you consider it for Sinn Fein to agree | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
Claire Sugden to take that role, will have been seen retrospectively | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
almost as a concession to the DUP, and the whole reason we are where we | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
are because they are calling time on that. Fascinating times. | :28:38. | :28:39. | |
That is it for this evening, but don't forget to join me | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
for The View on Thursday night at 10.40 on BBC One. | :28:44. | :28:46. | |
Until then, from everyone in the team, good night! | :28:47. | :28:51. | |
That I will faithfully execute the Office... | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
And will to the best of my ability... | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
The Constitution of the United States... | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
With visitors to Northern Ireland on the rise, | :29:03. | :29:19. | |
City tours, folks, hop on, hop off. | :29:20. | :29:23. |