Alliance Assembly Education Spokeswoman Eileen Bell has said that research published today by the Community Relations Council suggests that parents have an enormous responsibility when it comes to teaching their children attitudes about others. The Too Young to Notice? Report claims that children as young as three can spot symbols as being either loyalist or […]
Alliance Councillor Michael Long has expressed his dismay at the exclusion of Alliance councillors from chairmanships on Castlereagh Borough Council’s standing committees. Speaking after a meeting following the Council’s AGM, Councillor Long said: “I am disappointed that once again Alliance has been denied its fair share of chairmanships on the council.” “We are not asking […]
“May I begin Mr Speaker (/Madame Deputy Speaker) by declaring an interest in this series of amendments, as I am Chair of the Assembly Cross Party Group on Ageing and Older People.” “The amendments in my name will have the effect of extending the provision of the Bill to include free Personal care AS WELL […]
Alliance Health Spokesman Kieran McCarthy MLA has expressed his shock at the sheer scale of hypocrisy exhibited in the Assembly during today’s debate on a Health and Personal Social Services Bill. Mr McCarthy, who chairs the cross party committee on ageing and older people, had tabled a series of amendment to the Bill, which would […]
Alliance Health Spokesperson Kieran McCarthy MLA has urged Assembly members from other parties to back his amendments to a Health and Social Services Bill in Stormont on Monday. Mr McCarthy’s amendments would mean that older people would be able to benefit from free personal care, as well as free nursing care. The Strangford MLA, who […]
Alliance Health Spokesperson Kieran McCarthy MLA has urged Assembly members from other parties to back his amendments to a Health and Social Services Bill in Stormont on Monday. Mr McCarthy’s amendments would mean that older people would be able to benefit from free personal care, as well as free nursing care. The Strangford MLA, who […]
“Every child deserves the best possible opportunity in his or education – but unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case in Northern Ireland under the 11-plus transfer system.” “The current transfer procedures were devised in 1947, in a post-war scenario, and while there have been some changes to the system since then, the basis of the […]
Captain Terence O’Neill decided in the late Sixties that those Catholics who supported the constitutional position of Northern Ireland within the UK should be given an opportunity to get involved in the politics of Northern Ireland. The DUP and the bigots in the UUP who could not tolerate association with Catholics at a political level […]
The Alliance Party in Castlereagh has slammed the failure of Castlereagh Borough Council to rotate the top posts in the council after the DUP’s John Norris was elected Mayor for a second time and the UUP’s Michael Copeland was elected Deputy Mayor at the council AGM. Cllr Michael Long said: “I am disappointed but not […]
Alliance Councillor Sara Duncan has said she has been disgusted by the demolition of Oxford House this morning. Oxford House, at the junction of Purdysburn Road and Beech Hill Road in South Belfast, was built in 1889 as the Queen Victoria Convalescent Home by the Belfast and District Asylum. It featured in the Ulster Architectural […]