Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “Having pressed Barra McGrory QC, at our meeting last Thursday and in conversations since, for an external review into how the PPS handled the three cases linked to Mairia Cahill, I welcome this morning’s major announcement by...
Statement by TUV leader, Jim Allister:- “Last Tuesday during a report to the Assembly on the NSMC Plenary session I sought to ask if any one had raised the Chief Coroner’s concerns about non-cooperation by the Garda over the pending Kingsmills inquest....
TUV has raised fresh questions about the involvement of the Dublin government in upcoming political talks about the future of Northern Ireland. TUV is excluded from the talks, but the Dublin Government has an as yet unspecified role. Now, TUV is demanding to know if...
Commenting on the announcement that JTI Gallaher in Galgorm, Ballymena is set to close, Jim Allister said: “The news that almost 1000 workers will be made redundant as a result of this closure is a devastating blow to those who have given their all to the company, and...
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:- “Having previously exposed* that over £8m of spending by the North/South bodies within DCAL’s ambit was “irregular”, indeed illegal, because it did not have DFP approval, I have now established that within...
Statement by TUV Leader, Jim Allister:- “The Kingsmills Inquest is being frustrated by the failure of the Garda to cooperate. For months the Coroner has been asking them for files and for months they have failed to respond. The matter has been commented on...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “I’m long contended this form of devolution would never work, because it requires no consensus before entry into government, thus making deadlock inevitable. This is what we are now seeing being played out, fuelled by...
TUV has described the policy of delivering an end to the HET by starving it of funds as a political ploy to try and induce unionists to agree a fresh legacy approach, such as envisaged in Haass. TUV leader Jim Allister said, “Sinn Fein has long demanded the end...
Responding to suggestions that budget cuts may see the HET axed, TUV leader Jim Allister said:- “This further downgrade of the value of innocent victims in our society comes in a week that I received an Assembly Answer which revealed that last year, 2013/14, the...
Statement by TUV leader, Jim Allister:- “The very talk of £200m cuts has put Stormont into a tailspin. Think what top-slicing £400-£750m off the block grant would do, in order to pay for the bauble of corporation tax. “Stormont can’t handle the...
