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ISSUES OF KEY REGIONAL IMPORTANCE CAN ONLY BE DECIDED IF EXECUTIVE MEET - MARK DURKAN
SDLP Leader and Foyle MP Mark Durkan MLA has said there is a case for the Assembly to reconvene due to the ongoing failure of the Executive to meet.
Mr Durkan said issues of key regional importance such as the devolution of justice and policing and the future of the Maze stadium project can only be decided through collective meeting of the Executive.
“We have not had an Executive meeting since June and are unlikely to see one until mid-September.
“In circumstances where the Executive was failing to meet, where meetings were being cancelled, and where the business of Executive was silting up there could be a case for the Assembly reconvening.
“When the Assembly went into recess it did so with the expectation that the Executive would continue to meet to deal with the serious issues that are putting pressures of on families, businesses and the budgets of public services.
“Despite what Sinn Fein and the DUP would have us believe in relation to the devolution of justice and policing and Maze stadium, business is not being done at Executive level.
“In the build up to the talks at Leeds Castle and St Andrews the DUP were the ones saying that decisions could only be taken as a collective Executive not by ministers on solo runs or on a deal making or trade off basis by the DUP and Sinn Fein.
“Issues of key regional importance can only be decided if the Executive actually meets.
“The purpose of reconvening the Assembly would be to question and challenge why the Executive was not meeting. Assembly members are elected to hold the Executive to account. We must set out clearly why the Executive needs to meet and we will also put forward constructive ideas on what the Executive can do to help.
“During this period of inactivity, people have been feeling the effects of an economic crunch which has become a consumer and income crunch.
“This is taking its toll on companies and small businesses in all our constituencies.
“Rising energy costs are driving costs of living and we are reaching levels of difficulties where householders are struggling to heat their homes and run their cars and pay for food.
“There are budget implications for departments and services arising directly and indirectly from these cost increases.
“I have posed the question before and will do so again – is the Executive’s best way of meeting this crisis not to meet?
“Is this the best devolution can deliver? People are understandably coming to the conclusion that the Executive is approaching an ostrich approach. But sticking heads in the sand won’t change the reality of the problems facing our voters.”
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06-08-08
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surely now any merger with ff has been blown out of the water.
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Alban Maginess has been selected as the SDLP's Candidate for Europe!
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Rosemary Flanagan has been selected to represent the SDLP in the Enniskillen By-Election of Fermanagh District Council on Wednesday 17th September 2008
REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS & SURVIVORS OF THE OMAGH BOMB
10 YEARS ON
SDLP Leader Mark Durkan 'The Omagh bomb was a dreadful atrocity which epitomised the brutality and futility of all terrorism.
Today we remember the horror and the hurt, and honour the memory of all those who were robbed of their lives and their loves on that day.'
<<<<<<<<< Check out our video box from You tube - Juliet Turner sang this song for the victims and their families after the Omagh bomb in 1998
Thanks for the add, look forward to working with the party on LGBT issues.
SDLP YOUTH: DEMONSTRATION AGAINST COMMENTS BY IRIS ROBINSON MP
It is clear that Iris Robinson believes it is acceptable for her to preach outrageous messages of hate and discrimination based on her interpretation of ancient biblical texts. However, the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland do not agree with her comments.
PLEASE JOIN US ON THURSDAY 31st JULY at 1pm OUTSIDE BELFAST CITY HALL WHERE WE WILL HOLD A DEMONSTRATION. Everyone is invited, including family and friends of gay and lesbian people.
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Hey all! Cum down south and add me as a friend on bebo. Nutin like some cross broder fun ;-)
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Hey Ed. Youth Conference is on 5th July in Belfast. You are definitely invited - as are other Greens (letters should've been sent). Should be a great weekend. Hope you can make it.
I'm in the top 16? I'm honoured.
What's the story with convention, are guests invited?...
In Australia the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a brave and humbling apology spoken on behalf of the now Australian people to the The Aborigines the 'Real Australians', it was an in depth speech which stated many cases of mistreatment by the state on the natives.
We as Irish people North & South deserve nothing less, over a thousand years during famines 'Great Hunger', rapes and discrimination, collusion, theft of land and murder, should we expect anything less?
the IRA apologized for any wrong doings Yet those culprit's seem to get off lightly, should we not press for an Official State apology and maybe get Kevin Rudd involved or his backing as he seems to be a man with a lot of integrity? I doubt they will ever apologize but for all those people who laid there lives for our country at least we should try to push it.
"There will be no peace without dialogue" - John Hume
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Rememeber when no one spoke to Sinn Fein, John Hume did. Remember when Nationalists didn't speak to Unionist, John Hume did.
hi there, thnks 4 da add.