East Belfast MP Naomi Long is to table an adjournment debate on global access to water and sanitation in Westminster Hall tomorrow (Wednesday). The East Belfast Alliance MP said the issue, which is close to her heart as her former career was as a civil engineer, said she hoped the debate, which will begin at […]
Ahead of the Budget, Naomi Long MP has said that she is concerned that the widely anticipated move by the Chancellor to break national pay agreements could have serious consequences for Northern Ireland. She has also expressed concern that the indications are that taxation for the richest will be reduced at a time when those […]
Alliance OFMDFM spokesperson Chris Lyttle MLA has welcomed the fact that the Executive have agreed to a plan to co-ordinate the commemoration of a number of centenaries in the next ten years. Alliance proposed a motion which was passed in the Assembly in February on centenaries. Chris Lyttle MLA said: “I welcome the fact that […]
Application form Job Description and specification Completed forms should be emailed to nuala.mcallister@party.niassembly.gov.uk or alternatively by post to: Stewart Dickson MLA, Alliance Chief Whip, C/o Room 220, Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, BT4 3XX marked ‘Communications & Press Officer Post’ to arrive not later than Friday, 30th March at 12 noon Late applications and CV’s will […]
Alliance South Belfast MLA Anna Lo has called on drivers to remain vigilant to car hijacking attempts after a woman was approached by a man while she was parking her car on the Lisburn Road on Friday but he ran off when a passer-by intervened. Anna was herself a victim to an attempted car hijacking […]
Newcastle Alliance Councillor Patrick Clarke has welcomed the opening of enhanced tourist facilities at Silent Valley Mountain Park outside Newcastle. Tourism Minister Arlene Foster attended the opening of the tourist redevelopment scheme at the Silent Valley Reservoir situated in the Mournes Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on Wednesday 14th March. Silent Valley reservoir is now […]
East Belfast Alliance councillor Laura McNamee has condemned those behind the destruction of several bus shelters in her constituency. A number of shelters throughout East Belfast were smashed by vandals overnight, on the Newtownards Road and Old Holywood Road, as well as the Ballyhackamore and Ballybeen areas. Councillor McNamee said the actions were “wanton acts […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Kieran McCarthy MLA has called on the Health Minister to carry out a full investigation into the death of a patient who was left on a trolley at the Royal Victoria Hospital waiting to be transferred between wards. Kieran McCarthy MLA said: “I am simply shocked that this man appears to have […]
Alliance East Belfast MP Naomi Long raised the issue of recent pipe bomb attacks in East Belfast during Prime Minister’s Question Time in Westminster. In addition to condemning the incidents, she also pressed the Deputy Prime Minister to ensure that the work previously undertaken by the Independent Monitoring Commission, which assessed both paramilitary and criminal […]
Alliance East Belfast MLA Judith Cochrane has raised the issues of Computer Science with the Minister of Education John O’Dowd MLA in the Assembly. She asked the Minister whether his Department planned to introduce a separate computer science GCSE subject to address the skills shortage in this sector. The Minister responded saying: “I noted with […]