Stubborn approach must stop
Published Date:
08 October 2008
POPULAR frustration is mounting daily over the logjam at Stormont, caused by Sinn Fein's unjustified blockade of Executive business and yesterday more details emerged of the type of projects that are currently stuck in the system.
They involve expenditure of £50 million earmarked for housing, health, farming and culture at a time when any sort of public sector spending can only boost the ailing economy.
Finance Minister Nigel Dodds is going to examine ways of allocating the funds without a meeting of the Executive – but surely the Sinn Fein leadership must abandon this bloody-minded approach which is undermining public confidence in the power-sharing arrangements and hampering ministers' efforts to deliver for ordinary citizens, both nationalist and unionist?
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Last Updated:
08 October 2008 9:04 AM
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