Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“Over three weeks ago Gerry Kelly, a person supposedly on licence in consequence of his life sentences, obstructed the police by jumping on a land rover. He has yet to be questioned or arrested, it seems.
“But today, victim’s campaigner William Frazer attended the debate in the public gallery at Stormont and was arrested within minutes on the Upper Newtownards Road because of his attendance at Stormont. This is perverse and partial policing.”
Jim Allister MLA and Ann Travers
The Civil Service Special Advisers Bill yesterday (8th July) received Royal Assent.
Commenting its sponsor Jim Allister said:-
“Despite all the foolish claims of some, most notably Sinn Fein, that it was not human rights compliant, the SPAD Bill passed all the rigorous scrutiny of the Attorney General, the Advocate General and the NIO’s lawyers and is now the law of the land.
“Under the Act ministers must now declare if any of their Special Advisers have serious criminal convictions and multiple murderer Paul Kavanagh, and any other serious criminal in post, has 3 weeks to activate the appeal mechanism to an independent panel on specified grounds. Otherwise Mr Kavanagh automatically loses his position 2 months after Royal Assent. Continue Reading…
Responding to a report into the HET investigations of incidents involving former soldiers TUV leader Jim Allister said:
“I find it very hard to believe that the Historical Enquiries Team have been applying “less rigour” when investigating killings by the security forces than terrorists.
“At the weekend a survivor of the Enniskillen Bomb went public about his dissatisfaction about the HET’s investigation into that incident where there is still no sign of the report years after the investigation supposedly started. I doubt very much if the HET have, for example, questioned Martin McGuinness about his role in the bombing.
“Let’s remember that no later than 2008 a BBC documentary on the Enniskillen Bomb presented by Peter Taylor alleged that McGuinness had prior knowledge of the bombing. At the time I called for McGuinness to be questioned by the PSNI about conspiracy to murder. Continue Reading…
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
“£26m had been set aside from Treasury, as part of the policing and justice devolution agreement, to meet Equal Pay claims from Civil Servants who had transferred to work for the PSNI and other agencies.
“Now, this money has been handed back to London as part, I believe, of the funding arrangement over the expensive G8 event. The return of the money has been confirmed in response to AQW 24739/11-15.
“Yet, there are unmet claims by these civil servants. Stormont has let them down. Instead of trying to help, by way of deciding to meet their claims by direct ministerial decisions (ministerial directions), or making payments under the Financial Assistance Act (NI) 2009, the Stormont ministers have turned their backs on them and paid the money back to the Treasury. This is a shameful betrayal of deserving employees.”
Below is the text of a letter TUV leader Jim Allister MLA has this morning sent to the Northern Ireland Assembly Commissioner for Standards following the conduct of Gerry Kelly on Friday. Mr Allister is also raising the issues with the PSNI.
TUV Leader Jim Allister has established by an Assembly Question that in the past year a further two super injunctions have been issued by the High Court in Belfast. Both remain in operation.
