Alliance MLA Judith Cochrane has today launched a Northern Ireland-wide survey to assess the challenges facing GPs and generate ideas for solutions. The move follows the East Belfast MLA’s recognition that difficulty accessing GP services is a frequent concern raised by constituents, which led to her on-going campaign to improve this situation. Judith Cochrane MLA […]
Alliance Policing Board member Trevor Lunn MLA has said that the Police must investigate reports that a masked man fired a gun over the coffin of Liam Mullhern in West Belfast on Sunday night. Mr Mullhern, who had dissident republican connections, died on Thursday in Craigavon Hospital after collapsing in Maghaberry prison last Monday. Trevor […]
Alliance Lagan Valley MLA, Trevor Lunn, has backed a motion at the Assembly on Tuesday calling for victims of abuse carried out by members of the republican movement to be given support. The debate was based on the allegations made by Mairia Cahill in a BBC Spotlight programme in October. Trevor Lunn MLA said: “I […]
Alliance Councillor Neil Kelly has backed calls by party colleague Trevor Lunn for a joint-up approach from departments when it comes to preventing and dealing with fish kills. The South Antrim representative was speaking after stocks in the Sixmile Water River were seriously damaged in a recent pollution incident – the latest in a long […]
Alliance South Belfast MLA, Anna Lo, has said that a report on the benefits of immigration will play an important part in dispelling misconceptions that a number of people may have about immigrants. The report, commissioned by the Centre for Democracy and Peace Building, found that migrants made up about 4% of the NI workforce […]
Alliance Policing Board member Trevor Lunn has condemned attacks on the PSNI in Londonderry, following an earlier security operation in the area. Officers were pelted with bottles and stones while in the area as part of a follow-up operation after Sunday night’s dissident republican bomb attack on a police patrol in the Creggan Heights area. […]
Alliance MP Naomi Long has said those behind further violence in her constituency are doing nothing but “torturing” residents in East Belfast. Mrs Long said another night of violence, which saw the windows of three homes in the Albertbridge Road area damaged along with a police vehicle in Lord Street, was not what the vast […]
Alliance Education spokesperson, Trevor Lunn MLA, has condemned the offensive comments made by Gregory Campbell in the Assembly chamber on Monday. When he was asked to speak in the chamber he said “curry my yoghurt, can coca coalyer”, mocking the Irish for ‘thank you, Speaker’ which is ‘go raibh maith agat, Ceann Comhairle’. Trevor Lunn […]
Alliance OFMDFM spokesperson, Chris Lyttle MLA, has hosted an event in Stormont on Monday to launch a report by the Child Poverty Alliance on the levels of child poverty in Northern Ireland. ‘Beneath the Surface: Child Poverty in Northern Ireland’ looks into issues exacerbating child poverty and what can be done to eradicate it. The […]
Alliance East Belfast MLA, Judith Cochrane, has called on the Health Minister to give greater support to GPs for the earlier diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. She was speaking in the Assembly during a debate which called on the Minister to introduce new referral guidelines and to promote training and support for GPs to boost early […]