Call for a 'just and fair' PMS conclusion
FORMER Presbyterian moderator Rev Dr Stafford Carson has reminded the government of its pledge to help members of the collapsed Presbyterian Mutual Society.
Rev Carson yesterday called on the PMS ministerial working group and its chairman – the secretary of state Owen Paterson – to live up to the prime minister's pre-election pledge "to ensure a just and fair resolution of the PMS issue".
In a statement issued just days before the working group's first post-summer meeting, Rev Carson reminded the group of David Cameron's pre-election comments at La Mon Hotel: "We're all in this together, you've done the right thing, and you deserve for that to be recognised and rewarded."
Dr Carson also highlighted post-election comments of Mr Paterson in June: "As well as making clear to me that the takeover of PMS by a larger financial institution was still a possibility (Mr Paterson] encouraged me to quote Mr Cameron's pledge when I addressed the opening night of the General Assembly that evening."
Rev Carson said that only a solution which returns all money to all PMS savers would be "just and fair".
All other financial institutions which suffered in the credit crunch had been rescued by government, he added.
He praised Stormont ministers for their "strenuous work" but he added that help from Westminster was critical.
Meanwhile, Ulster Unionist deputy leader Danny Kennedy chaired a meeting for 200 PMS savers in Bessbrook on Tuesday.
"The depth of feeling expressed on this occasion, and the sheer number of those present, demonstrated very clearly that this is, quite rightly, not going to go away without a fair outcome for savers," he said.
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