TUV leader Jim Allister has established through an Assembly Question that £8000 every day of health service funds is going on paying interpreters, giving an annual cost of almost £3 million. The TUV leader has also established that 5% of pupils in Northern Ireland...
TUV leader Jim Allister has warned that the Stormont which squabbles over cuts and welfare reform is demonstrably unfit to handle the devolution of corporation tax powers. “The June monitoring cuts have put the executive in a spin, with the Health minister...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “Last month Edwin Poots voted in the executive to accept only £20m for health in the monitoring round. Today, he declares he won’t live within this constraint and that he desperately needs another £60m, at least! Is...
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:- “There is a growing funding crisis in the innocent victims’ sector. The phasing out of PEACE III funding, with no gap provision made by Stormont, has coincided with severe cuts by OFMDFM in such funding as their...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- “The admission today by the Education Minister that for 5 years under Sinn Fein there have been no powers to remove a teacher’s eligibility to teach in Northern Ireland, speaks to an unfit minister and sloppy...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: This staggering statement by the deputy First Minister yesterday in the Assembly requires urgent clarification from the First Minister:- “The First Minister is on the public record as saying that he believes that it would be...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “Indications that the Haass issues are to be addressed in further hothouse talks, after a meddling visit by the ROI Foreign Minister, suggests who is calling the shots. “But, there are fundamental questions for the...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister: “Not for the first time Gerry Kelly is on the run! “This time, he’s running from public scrutiny before the NI Committee in Westminster over his role in the nefarious OTR scheme. Fearful of public questioning he...
Statement by TUV North Antrim MLA Jim Allister:- “Edwin Poots’ electioneering announcement of ‘reprieve’ for four statutory care homes needs close examination. If he does not reverse his policy of blocking new admissions to all these homes, and...
Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:- It is welcome that the Secretary of State now recognises the imperative of an Opposition, but she needs to do something about it. Abdicating responsibility to self-regulation by the Assembly means it will never happen, because of...
