Cllr Noel Williams: “Carrickfergus Council, like all other Councils in Northern Ireland, has adopted an official Public Equality Scheme but there had been no attempt from the Unionist parties of DUP and the UUP to engage with any other elected members including the Alliance and Independent councillors.
“I intend to make a compliant to the Equality Commission and I will be inviting them to asses if the lack of engagement, which effectively excluded those elected members from meaningful involvement if filling the various offices, and to rule if the Councils’ Public Equality Scheme had been breached.
“Again we have seen the UUP carrying out Unionist Unity with the DUP, and actually doing the bidding of the DUP. People in Carrickfergus need to realise that if you vote UUP in Carrickfergus you actually get DUP and once aware of what happened at the AGM, people will indeed be wondering why they bothered voting for the UUP if they are merely going to do the DUP bidding.