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Minister Dismisses Major American Backing for Sandy Row Boxing Club as “Gossip”

Admin —  February 6, 2014

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“Today’s comments by the Culture Minister during question time when she dismissed a letter she hadn’t read as “gossip” were nothing short of scandalous.

“For her information, the fact that someone of the standing within amateur boxing internationally of Ray Rodgers has come out and backed Sandy Row and called for a Northern Ireland Amateur Boxing Association is highly significant. I have long argued that there is no reason why two organisations couldn’t operate within Northern Ireland and Mr Rodgers cites an interesting model to follow. As he points out: Continue Reading…

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Minister Dismisses Major American Backing for Sandy Row Boxing Club as “Gossip”

Admin —  February 4, 2014

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“Today’s comments by the Culture Minister during question time when she dismissed a letter she hadn’t read as “gossip” were nothing short of scandalous.

“For her information, the fact that someone of the standing within amateur boxing internationally of Ray Rodgers has come out and backed Sandy Row and called for a Northern Ireland Amateur Boxing Association is highly significant. I have long argued that there is no reason why two organisations couldn’t operate within Northern Ireland and Mr Rodgers cites an interesting model to follow. As he points out: Continue Reading…

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Ombudsman Tells Sinn Fein Department to Apologise to Allister

Admin —  February 4, 2014

Jim Allister has welcomed a report by the Northern Ireland Ombudsman Tom Frawley which described the Department of Education’s handling of correspondence from the TUV leader as “unacceptable” and recommended that the Department provide a written apology to Mr Allister – something the Department arrogantly rejects. Continue Reading…

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Speaker Refuses Urgent Oral on IRA Escapee Visit to Discuss Prison Escape WITH INMATES

Admin —  February 3, 2014

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“I am disappointed, but from previous experience not terribly surprised, that I have not been afforded the opportunity to question the Justice Minister about the proposed visit of an IRA escapee to a prison in order to discuss his book The Escape.

“While it is welcome that Gerry Kelly’s visit to a book club at Hydebankwood has been cancelled it is absolutely outrageous that this was ever contemplated in the first place. When I first heard of the plan on Friday morning frankly I did not know whether to believe it or not. Continue Reading…

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Delivering For RUC Widows – Platform Article

Admin —  February 3, 2014

The following platform article appeared in Saturday’s News Letter.

Since police pension regulations were reformed a few years ago there has been a glaring inequality affecting RUC widows. Under the new regulations a new police widow can retain her pension rights for life. Thus on remarriage she does not forfeit her pension. In contrast widows covered by the earlier regulations do lose their pension if they remarry. Continue Reading…

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Standards Commissioner Gives Green Light to Glorification of Terror

Admin —  January 23, 2014

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“When the Assembly debated the appointment of Douglas Bain as Assembly Commissioner for Standards I expressed my disappointment with the choice of someone who so neatly fitted within the quango circuit. My view that Mr Bain is completely unsuited for the role is reinforced by the fact that he has decided that a complaint made against Gerry Kelly following comments he made on the Nolan Show about his breakout from the Maze is inadmissible, a decision agreed to by the Committee on Standards and Privileges. Continue Reading…

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Speaker Rejects Question on McGuinness Orange Comments

Admin —  January 20, 2014

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“I am disappointed that the Speaker has declined my request for an urgent oral question to the Justice Minister following Martin McGuinness’s disgraceful comments about the Orange Order.

“The filled and pernicious alignment by McGuinness of the Orange Order with the UVF sets up Orange Halls, parades and personnel for further republican attack and should be allowed to be raised in the chamber.”

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TUV to try and raise McGuinness outburst in Assembly

Admin —  January 20, 2014

TUV Leader is seeking to table an urgent oral question to the Justice Minister in the Assembly on Monday.

The question, which requires the consent of the Speaker, focuses on the threat now posed to Orange Halls and personnel by McGuinness equating the Orange Order to the UVF, is in the following terms:-

“To ask DOJ minister for his assessment of the threat to Orange Halls and personnel resulting from the deputy First Minister’s claiming the UVF and Orange Order are one and the same in Belfast.”

Commenting Jim Allister said, “The hate filled and pernicious alignment by McGuinness of the Orange Order with the UVF sets up Orange Halls, parades and personnel for further republican attack. Surely, even this Justice Minister, who has been silent on this incitement, should have something to say about the matter.”

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Allister slams €137m loss of Pillar 1 funds to Pillar 2

Admin —  December 20, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-

“I am appalled, but not surprised, by Minister O’Neill lavishing €137m of farming money on the rural development programme, because she has form on such misdirection of funds. Last year she oversaw £844,000 of RDP funds go to one of the richest GAA Clubs in Ireland, Tyrone. Now, she is preparing the way for such further waste by over subscription to Pillar 2 and haemorrhaging of such funds from Pillar 1. Continue Reading…

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Haass, like Mitchell, is a placeman to deliver an anti-unionist agenda

Admin —  December 20, 2013

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-

“It is certainly no surprise to me that the Haass process is putting pressure on unionists. It was never designed to do otherwise. All such international involvement has the same tilt, because the Dublin/London/Washington nexus, which drives the process, is consciously anti-unionist. It was the same when Mitchell was the frontman. Nothing has changed under Haass. The only difference is that the DUP leader was foolish enough to join with his government buddy McGuinness to call in Haass! Continue Reading…

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