In her adjournment debate this week in the Assembly, Alliance MLA for East Belfast Judith Cochrane highlighted the difficulties facing children and young people with cancer in East Belfast, calling upon the Health Minister to progress the implementation of the Executive’s ‘Service Framework for Cancer Prevention, Treatment and Care’ to enhance the current standards of […]
Alliance East Belfast MP Naomi Long has given a cautious welcome to the announcement by the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs that they intend to ban the use of wild animals in circuses in England and has called on the Northern Ireland Minister of Agriculture to follow suit. As a signatory to […]
Alliance East Belfast MP Naomi Long will highlight ways to stabilise the Northern Ireland economy during a debate entitled ‘Rebalancing the Northern Ireland Economy’, which will take place at Westminster Hall at 14.30 on Thursday (March 1st). She will bring up the spiralling cost of division during the debate, saying it was crucial to the […]
Alliance spokesperson on the Office of First & deputy First Minister (OFMdFM), Chris Lyttle, has said that the Peace Monitoring Report is a challenge to every member of this society and confirmation that meaningful action to tackle division and build a shared future must be the Executive’s priority. East Belfast Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle said: […]
Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle has hit out at the SDLP’s failure to back the motion on the devolution of justice powers to the Assembly saying the SDLP is clinging to what they call the ugly scaffolding of aspects of the Agreement, to the detriment of progressing a shared and better future for Northern Ireland. Alliance […]
Alliance Environment spokesperson Anna Lo MLA and Belfast Councillor Laura McNamee have called on the Minister to work with Councils to ensure that unfinished developments are adequately secured. Her comments follow a debate in the Assembly. Cllr McNamee brought a motion to Belfast Council last September calling upon the Environment Department to review the existing […]
Alliance South Belfast MLA Anna Lo has spoken out against the recent spate of car hijackings. Her comments were made during an Assembly debate on this issue. Anna was the victim of an attempted car hijacking two weeks ago near her constituency office. Anna Lo MLA said: “The issue of car hijacking crime has been […]
Alliance Health Spokesperson Kieran McCarthy MLA has backed a move by the Health Minister Edwin Poots to create a 10 year tobacco strategy to help on prevention and intervention as regards smoking. Kieran McCarthy MLA said: “Let’s face it, smoking is and has been one of the biggest drains on our health service. “Our health […]
Alliance MLA for the area David Ford and Newtownabbey Alliance Councillors Lynn Frazer and John Blair have met with Environment Minister Alex Attwood and Regional Development Minister Danny Kennedy regarding the potential adoption of roads and the water supply in the Aylesbury and Alderley housing developments, off the N21 off the Mallusk Road. The N21 […]
Here are excerpts from the Assembly speech today by Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle on his motion on the forthcoming decade of centenaries (subject to change on deliver): This decade will mark the centenary of a number of seminal events in the history of UK and Ireland. The period could be said to commence with the […]