Alliance Education spokesperson, Trevor Lunn MLA, has said that he is pleased that the Assembly has passed a cross party amendment that will give the integrated and Irish medium education sectors a seat on the new education authority. The vote took place during the Further Consideration Stage of the Education Bill. Trevor Lunn MLA said: […]
Alliance Education spokesperson, Trevor Lunn MLA, has asked why the DUP, UUP and Sinn Fein are scared by the promotion of integrated education. Mr Lunn was speaking after these parties voted against an Alliance amendment that would have given the new education authority a duty to promote integrated education. The vote took place during the […]
Alliance Councillor Jayne Dunlop has said she is extremely saddened after an eight-year-old child was killed following a serious road traffic accident in Cloughmills. The boy had been walking with his mother and five siblings when they were struck by a car on the Loughill Road. Jayne Dunlop said: “This is an extremely sad time […]
Alliance Social Development spokesperson, Stewart Dickson MLA, has criticised the repeated delays over introducing the Housing and Regeneration Bill. He was speaking after the Social Development Minister announced that he would be introducing a revised Regeneration Bill after removing some of the housing provisions that were included in the original legislation. The Bill was meant […]
Alliance East Belfast MP Naomi Long has said that the announcement of a cap on the level of interest that can be charged by payday loan companies, is a welcome step forward. The Financial Conduct Authority has said that payday lenders will only be able to charge 0.8% of the amount borrowed per day. Nobody […]
Alliance Policing Board Member, Trevor Lunn MLA, has responded to a report by Liam Kennedy of Queen’s University regarding the number of paramilitary-style attacks that were carried out between 1990 and 2013 on children. The report entitled ‘They shoot children, don’t they’ found that around 500 children were targeted by republican and loyalist paramilitaries in […]
Alliance Antrim Councillor Neil Kelly has condemned those responsible for graffiti which was daubed on the side of Greystone Presbyterian Church. Cllr Neil Kelly said: “I am disgusted by this attack on the Presbyterian Church. There can be no justification for this incident. It is appalling that there are still those who would seek to […]
Alliance Education spokesperson, Trevor Lunn MLA, has welcomed the cross party agreement over an amendment to the Education Bill that will see all sectors represented on the new single education authority. The amendment, which was signed by Alliance, DUP, UUP, Green and an Independent, will ensure that the Integrated and Irish Medium sectors will have […]
Alliance Education spokesperson, Trevor Lunn MLA, has responded to the report by Northern Ireland’s Chief Inspector of Schools, which has found that four in ten pupils leave school without five good GSCEs and that one in three schools could not be evaluated as good. Trevor Lunn MLA said: “While this report has found a slight […]
Alliance East Belfast MP Naomi Long has said the current talks process must be dramatically restructured if there is to be any chance of success. Mrs Long was speaking after the latest round of talks took place today (Thursday), saying the list of unresolved issues was becoming longer with little sign of any progress in […]