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Hello and welcome to Stormont Today. After the weekend killing of the | :00:33. | :00:42. | |
Garter officer Adrian Donohue, the hunt is on for his killers. Also, | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
the Deputy First minister it reaches out to flag demonstrators. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
I met with people who were involved in the protest and others who were | :00:52. | :01:02. | |
a good influence and could stop the violence on the streets. And with | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
her insides is our Political Correspondent Martina Purdy. The | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Justice Minister David Ford said that the PSNI and guard D Baugh co- | :01:14. | :01:22. | |
operate to catch the killers of the Garda officer. Officers paid their | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
respects to guard officer Adrian Donohue he was shot dead last | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
Friday. For us and foremost, I am sure every member of this House | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
will join me in condemning the callous murder of Detective Garda | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
or Adrian Donohue. My thoughts are with his wife and family and other | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
Garda officers. We are committed to working together against the | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
criminal gangs and to protect all our communities, north and south. | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
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Can I ask if the minister will join with me to call on everyone with | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
information to co-operate? person who has any information | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
whatsoever relating to this or any other serious crime has a duty to | :02:22. | :02:29. | |
inform be PSNI, the Garter or an organisation like Crimestoppers. | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
The fight against terrorism and organised crime is a fight in which | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
we are all united and one in which is clearly seen by the response | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
coming from the PSNI of and the garden. The in respect of the | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
reports that are coming that these serious organised crime gangs are | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
moving from Dublin and residing in places like Newry, what response | :02:59. | :03:08. | |
can the Minister give to ask that Northern Ireland is not a safe | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
place for them to hide. Last week there was a report of significant | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
efforts being taken by the PSNI along with their colleagues in the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
garda it to disrupt and deterred and dismember organised crime gangs. | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
Sadly the reality is that some of these crime gangs spread across | :03:31. | :03:39. | |
every part of Europe, if not wider. But I have no doubt that we will | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
see corporation a cross the border and in the United Kingdom generally. | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
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-- across the border. There is no doubt in the work that I is going | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
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on in terms of cross-border co- operation. Is it by talk that a | :04:21. | :04:31. | |
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criminal agency in Northern Ireland will continue? I will continue to | :04:40. | :04:49. | |
highlight the corporation on a 0- south basis. The current situation | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
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is a decision has not been reached about the serious and organised | :04:59. | :05:09. | |
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crime Association. I am keen to see we have a body operating in line | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
with the police and contributing to the fight against organised crime, | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
and a heinous crimes such as human trafficking. It is essential that | :05:29. | :05:38. | |
there is a seamless transition from the old organisation to be new one | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
-- to the new one. We need to join up law enforcement in the best way | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
in both the jurisdictions of this island. That is why I have regular | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
meetings with the Home Office and the Scottish cabinet minister for | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
justice. All of that is necessary and it is important that Northern | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Ireland should be joined in to the appropriate UK agencies in the | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
right way, just as we need to maintain the structures we have for | :06:14. | :06:24. | |
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the 0-South agreement. Political Correspondent Martina | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
Purdy is with us. Please remind us of the issues regarding | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
international crime? There are plans at Westminster to have this | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
national crime agency which would be a very powerful agency. It would | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
be the British version of the FBI. The difficulty is that criminal | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
justice has been devolved to Norman Ireland. The Executive will need to | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
be able to take back powers and legislate for this new organisation. | :07:07. | :07:15. | |
It was bought to David Ford last week and there were objections. | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
we are having a stand-off? There was an issue over accountability. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
One of the key concerns was this agency would report directly to the | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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Home Secretary rather than the cheap constable. -- chief constable. | :07:40. | :07:49. | |
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Martin McGuinness and Alex at what are involved and after voting, the | :07:55. | :08:02. | |
Unionists and the Alliance agreed to have backing from Westminster. | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
It will have implications for what does or doesn't happen here, | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
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whatever happens in the UK? We are hearing that the DUP will do its | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
best to legislate for a national agency. They do need national | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
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consensus for these agents to have powers here. There are concerns | :08:39. | :08:48. | |
about accountability. The other issues include the proceeds of | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
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crime - do they stay here or go back to Westminster question its -- | :08:59. | :09:08. | |
Westminster? Thank you. We will hear more from Martina Purdy later. | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
Today, the Deputy First Minister said but he met some of those | :09:13. | :09:23. | |
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involved in the flag protest. protests have led to difficult | :09:31. | :09:40. | |
trading situations for businesses. I have met with representatives of | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
the traders and hospitality industry in the area. They told me | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
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that over the weekend there have been 2 million tweeds. -- tweets. | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
These protests should not put people off visiting Belfast. Apart | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
from the financial and moral support, is it not necessary for | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
the Deputy First Minister and First Minister to work together to calm | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
the situation, to condemn violence and to condemn illegal protest? | :10:27. | :10:35. | |
important thing as we move forward is to see and it ends of conflict | :10:36. | :10:42. | |
and violence on the streets. All be political parties have expressed | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
their opposition to the violence. Over two weeks ago I met whip some | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
people who were involved in a protest. I also met with some | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
people who I believed could influence the ending of violence on | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
the streets. I know that the First Minister is also equally committed | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
to ensuring an end to be violence on the streets, as I am. It is | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
crucially important we all work together and that we are seen to be | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
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working together. As in the case of previous incidents, it is important | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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we send a clear message to be violent extremists -- the violent | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
extremists. Would the Deputy First Minister agreed that what the | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
entire community would like to see is the First Minister and Deputy | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
First Minister standing shoulder to shoulder to condemn not only the | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
violence of today, but all violence, past as well as present? It is | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
vital that all of the members in this Assembly and all the political | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
parties in this Assembly are speaking with one voice. I know | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
people have issued their own individual statements. I accept all | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
the people in this Assembly are totally opposed to violence of any | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
description whatsoever and individually all of the political | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
parties have made it clear they won the protests to end. It is also | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
important that we offered to speak to those people involved in the | :12:36. | :12:46. | |
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protests. I am willing to speak to more people. I am extending my | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
offer to do this. I am willing to go to the waterside because this is | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
an important year for the city. If this year is a success, every | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
community, every single political party, all of the churches, | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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community sectors will benefit from how we bring the City of Culture | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
here. Also, the legacy we leave could provide were needed | :13:25. | :13:35. | |
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Higher and lower at engagement with gay rights groups and they are | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
concerned that there is an increase in Hamill full beer in schools but | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
that is a matter for the schools, and any form of bullying is wrong | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
and that includes a homophobic bullying and bullying is often the | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
products of exterior forces to the school and attitudes within | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
communities on behalf of the household -- and we have to lead | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
from the household. And society has a major role to play in ending the | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
type of language and behaviour we see from adults and if we do that, | :14:18. | :14:23. | |
we will see a decrease in homophobic bullying. Does he | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
believe that teaching in some schools that homosexuality is a | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
saying is against the duty of teachers? It has not been brought | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
my attention that any individual school is teaching that and the | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
ethos of any school is a matter for the board of governors of that | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
school but it isn't a job to deal with morality issues, I have to do | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
with educational issues and I do not believe that such practices are | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
beneficial to the well-being of the community. In the 21st century, we | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
should treat all of our citizens with equality and respect and that | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
being gay and being in a loving relationship isn't descend and in | :15:06. | :15:16. | |
any context of the word by would have. Does the education minister | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
share by aspiration for moving to a single educational system and can | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
he give some idea of a time from? My aspiration is to ease this | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
legislation over the line and that will be the first step towards a | :15:31. | :15:37. | |
greater sharing of sectors and there ever has been before. With | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
the education and library boards around one table but we are now | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
bringing all the sectors around one table under one authority | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
responsible for the delivery of educational policy in the north. | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
That is a major step forward. Education has been pointed to a | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
many times as the solution to sectarianism and I believe that has | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
a significant role to play in resolving sectarianism but | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
education isn't the cause as the terrain isn't. Therefore, it cannot | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
be held up and be responsible for all the ills in the society. | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
Committees and all of us have to move forward to ensure we can reach | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
a stage where everyone is comfortable with a single education | :16:17. | :16:23. | |
system. At the moment, the educational skills are authority, | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
this is a significant step forward. A as a result of the area planning | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
process, does he foresee closer co- operation in border communities | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
between primary schools either side of the board? It is a logical | :16:38. | :16:45. | |
outcome of closer co-operation under the educational sector that | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
we require closer co-operation along the border. It is to benefit | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
the people who live along the border corridors that these | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
proposals are into this but it makes sense in health and an | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
education. It is one of the issues and will raise with my counterpart | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
minister when they next meet. There is no career out there that if you | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
study for you are guaranteed a job and teaching is clearly one of | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
those areas. In terms of graduates and postgraduates coming out of | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
universities across a wide range of subjects, there is no guarantee. | :17:19. | :17:26. | |
Over the last number of years we have reduced the trainee teacher | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
intake by 32% and our current teacher training colleges are just | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
about operating on a basis when they are viable so we have choices | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
to make in society, we can decide to continue to dramatically reduce | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
the teacher training intake to abbesses weather training colleges | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
become unviable and what will happen is students will travel to | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
England, Wales and the South of Ireland to train and they welcome | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
back here and whoever is in the ministerial post will be asked a | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
question, how many teachers are working? We will have similar | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
figures, we will have lost the colleges, the ability to train our | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
own teachers and the murder might shake his head. I am sure when he | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
was looking at teacher-training numbers for nurses and doctors and | :18:19. | :18:24. | |
other medical professions, this was in his head. To be completely | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
abandoned training here? Or do we plan provisions that allow for an | :18:30. | :18:39. | |
intake which is at the moment around 600. What we have done in | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
tandem is we have encouraged schools to recruit newly qualified | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
teachers, encouraged schools to ensure that when they are looking | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
for substitutes, they use newly qualified teachers so the | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
department has done everything within its power to ensure newly | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
qualified teachers are given a fair playing field. Members are going to | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
have to ask themselves and answer the question, do they want teacher | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
training here or do they want students to travel? That is the | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
next decision. The Education Minister, John O'Dowd. What is the | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
Social Development Minister doing to deliver his department's | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
commitments to tackle social disadvantage? Today, MLAs debated | :19:20. | :19:27. | |
that very question during a motion brought forward by Sinn Fein. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
underlying principle is to get people into work and off benefits | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
and nobody would disagree with that. The reality is that there are no | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
jobs and to introduce cuts and penalise people at this time will | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
only make the situation worse. A recent report stated that to have a | :19:42. | :19:48. | |
reasonable standard of living, a person needs to earn �7.20 each | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
hour and the minimum wage here is �6.19. A report has found that half | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
of the children in poverty live in working hustles and some of the | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
most deprived wards in the north, poverty figures stand out 63%, an | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
appalling statistic. The average and council areas is 21% in Britain. | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
Explaining how the department is tackling social disadvantage, | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
perhaps a master could spend less time selling welfare reform and | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
getting on with the task of alleviating hardship and | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
deprivation across the six counties. The DST has implemented a number of | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
initiatives that are having a real effect on committees. Campaigns to | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
encourage people to claim benefits, they have no doubt made a direct | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
contribution to raising people out of poverty. I believe the time is | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
right to continue building on the success and try to ensure that | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
current economic climate that the find ourselves in and the impending | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
necessary welfare reforms, we need to keep momentum. It is important | :20:50. | :20:57. | |
to ensure that people realise that people have the system to help them | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
when they need it but life on the system should not be considered as | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
an acceptable alternative. Tackling social deprivation must surely be | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
one of those issues which truly unites all parties. We might differ | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
about what matters we think our past or what programmes are more | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
effective than others, but on the whole, nobody could disagree with | :21:18. | :21:25. | |
the broad objective of tackling fuel poverty and social exclusion. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Unfortunately, recent difficulties have made what was already at | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
difficult life for many people in Northern Ireland even harder. We | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
have the highest level of economic inactivity across the UK. And even | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
Astwick, we learnt that a number of people claiming unemployment | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
related benefits stood at a startling 65,200. That was in | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
December. An increase of 500 over the previous month. The month in | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
which Christmas a Kurd. The Minister will not be surprised to | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
hear that I believe he is failing to deliver adequate social housing. | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
He will stay -- say he has met its targets but even given that the | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
social housing development programme has significantly | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
underspent to the tune of �8 million this year, that in some | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
ways shows a lack of ambition on his part. I looked at the number of | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
people on waiting lists, especially those in housing stress, and I | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
don't see it being reduced enough to merit the handing back of so | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
much money. The targets for the last Programme for Government left | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
a lot of lines in Red Ed writing, which meant that those particular | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
targets had not been met. There was a target to have child poverty | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
halved by 2010 and that was not delivered. The target to work | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
towards ending severe child poverty by 2012, obviously not delivered. | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
The target to make the reduction of 15% on the rate of suicide, still | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
in the red. And to reduce by 50% a life-expectancy differential | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
between the most disadvantaged areas and the Northern Ireland | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
average, still in the red. There was a target to increase attainment | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
levels in primary schools to which the majority of pupils with their | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
neighbourhood renewal areas would be within 5% of the average, still | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
not delivered. We have a real difficulty, 120,000 young people | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
and children still living in poverty and I am not going to stand | :23:31. | :23:37. | |
here and defend the Minister for Social Development because they | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
understand he has a very particular role in dealing with this and it is | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
very difficult when we look at what has coming down the tracks. None of | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
us can stand on the sidelines and pretend it is the fault of Mr | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
McCausland or someone else, each and every minister in the Executive | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
has responsibility to deliver the end of social disadvantage and the | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
end of child poverty. I hope all parties take that very seriously. | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
And that we understand that it is a cross cutting issue. The most | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
important issue to try to end social disadvantage. My Department | :24:11. | :24:17. | |
has made and continues to make good progress in meeting our targets. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Four other six targets concern housing issues. Housing plays a | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
hugely significant role in creating as safe, healthy and prosperous | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
society had my first strategy in Northern Ireland, launched with | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
public consultation in October, set out my vision for housing in | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
Northern Ireland. In this I have set out my proposals for housing as | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
a means to have support and sustain economic recovery created -- create | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
employment and to regenerate some of our most deprived communities. | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
The strategy not only focuses on the delivery of the Programme for | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Government but goes much further in creating the conditions for stable, | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
sustainable, accessible, good quality, affordable and well- | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
managed housing to support economic growth and prosperity. The Social | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
Development Minister, Nelson McCausland. The issue of who pays | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
for the shake-up in our local councils was raised by the SDLP | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
this afternoon. There are plans to cut the number of councils from 26 | :25:17. | :25:20. | |
to 11 and Dolores Kelly told the chamber that central government | :25:20. | :25:27. | |
should do more to help fund the cost. As members will know, the | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
SDLP is the only party which did not support the budget, which did | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
not allow for any funding for the RPA. The guidelines agreed by the | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Executive at that time were that the implementation costs associated | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
with reform would not be met by central government. Local | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
government would be required to bear these costs. There is a huge | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
amount of work but the cost to the ratepayer is something that we are | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
very concerned about and that concern is one which colleagues at | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
local council level share. By and large, and I don't seek to speak | :26:04. | :26:09. | |
for everybody, but we have moved forward in debates about the review | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
of public administration and whether it should happen. It is | :26:14. | :26:21. | |
happening and how should it be funded? That is one area of comfort. | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
The second principle adopted by the council past year is that the | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Executive would not play for those upfront costs and it would be a | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
matter for local government on the basis that they would be the | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
beneficiary. That is unreasonable argument. We have a scenario, we | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
are being asked to buy a car and we don't know it has tyres for wipers | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
or lights, but this has to go ahead. Why? RPA was nonsense. This isn't | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
going to work, there is nothing local about this. This is a dirty | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
deal between yourselves and Sinn Fein. You are trying to force this | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
through. You even add about yourselves... Other councillors | :27:06. | :27:12. | |
don't want it. They don't want this deal. Small parties don't want this | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
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deal. Why? Ross Hussey. Martina Purdy John Smith Bay. -- Martina | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
Purdy is with me. Obviously money is tight. Why shouldn't the | :27:29. | :27:32. | |
councils pay for the shake-up when they will benefit from savings? | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
Isn't that what the previous Executive decided? Yes, in the last | :27:37. | :27:42. | |
term but Alex Attwood says that they are going to have to move off | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
this position and his paper says the cost of this shake-up is around | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
100 and out �2 million and the upfront costs are around �40 | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
million. Everybody agrees the councils will make savings but the | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
Minister says there are some costs that will not make savings. If you | :27:59. | :28:04. | |
have a severance package for councillors, for example. If the | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
councils don't get the money from the Executive, they will pass it on | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
to ratepayers. The SDLP is obviously championing its Minister | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
but there seems to be some sympathy for his position that money is | :28:14. | :28:17. | |
needed from the Executive. Money might be tight, but as the old | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
adage has it, you must speculate to accumulate. The DUP failed to get | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
the amendment passed and the SDLP, Sinn Fein and Ulster Unionists | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
decided that the Executive needs to come on board. What has happened is | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
that will go back to the Executive, and they can ignore the vote but | :28:32. | :28:36. | |
there will be more pressure on Sammy Wilson, who continues to say | :28:36. | :28:44. | |
no. The deputy and First Minister might meet to resolve this. Do So | :28:44. | :28:50. | |
our two top Ministers might well be off to Rio? They have been | :28:50. | :28:53. | |
consulted about the possibility of travelling to Brazil in March ahead | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
of the visit to the west for St Patrick's Day and Brazil as one of | :28:58. | :29:01. |