East Belfast Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle has welcomed the creation of a website about the Titanic saying he hopes it will boost tourism in the area. The website has been unveiled in New York and will profile Northern Ireland and our shipbuilding heritage. Chris Lyttle MLA said: “This is a very welcome development and I […]
Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle said Sinn Féin need to realise the pressure our public finances are under and make a strong commitment to tackling the cost of division. He said that by tackling segregation we can help protect vital frontline services from cuts. His comments come following the debate on good relations in the Assembly […]
Alliance Education Spokesperson Trevor Lunn MLA has welcomed a report from Oxford Economics which said shared education could help schools here deal with the difficult financial circumstances Northern Ireland is facing. Trevor Lunn said that it costs around £1 billion to maintain segregated services here and a significant amount of this relates to the education […]
Here is East Belfast Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle’s maiden speech in which he proposed the Alliance amendment to the motion on Equality and Good Relations at the Assembly today. “May I take this opportunity to thank you and all your colleagues for the warm welcome I have been given to this Assembly and to put […]
Antrim Town Alliance Councillor Neil Kelly has said he is sickened at news that a pipe bomb has partially exploded and the remains of it were found outside a house in Fairmont Drive in the town. The device was found by a resident at around 9am this morning and police say it went off on […]
North Down Alliance Councillor Andrew Muir has discovered that the six reservoirs in the Craigantlet area have been granted a temporary reprieve but that Portavoe Reservoir near Groomsport is scheduled for sale in 2011/12. Following his recent meeting with NI Water concerning their plans to sell the six reservoirs in the Craigantlet area he learned […]
On that day that Autism NI is launching a report at Stormont, East Belfast Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle has expressed shock that over 50% of mothers in Northern Ireland who have a child with Autism currently take medication to cope with stress. Chris Lyttle MLA said: It is deeply troubling that this research shows that […]
Victoria Alliance Party Councillor Laura McNamee has contacted the Department of Social Development to raise concerns about the lack of wheelchair accessible social housing in East Belfast . She has been contacted by constituents across East Belfast who require ground floor accommodation and has been trying to assist them to find suitable accommodation. Cllr Laura […]
Speaking ahead of a debate on OFMDFM’s Draft Programme for Cohesion, Sharing and Integration, Alliance Party Good Relations spokesperson, Stephen Farry MLA, has welcomed the progress that has been made in the debate but highlighted his party’s fundamental concerns relating to the current content of the Strategy. Stephen Farry MLA said: “Alliance acknowledges the progress […]
Alliance Party Finance Spokesperson, Stephen Farry MLA, responding to a statement from the Minister for Agriculture, Michelle Gildernew, in the Assembly on the EU Disallowances relating to mismanagement of the Single Farm Payment scheme has expressed concern at the Minister not accepting the impact of this situation on other public services and the wide economy. […]