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MAGINNESS - DUP AND SINN FEIN DETACHED FROM REALITY SDLP North Belfast MLA Alban Maginness has said that threats and counter threats about the future of the Executive show how detached from reality Sinn Fein and the DUP are becoming. At a time when people across the North are worried about the future of their homes and their jobs, the DUP and Sinn Fein have once again put their own interests ahead of the publics. Speaking as the Assembly returns from recess today Mr Maginness stated: “The DUP and Sinn Fein are spending most of their time and energy on creating and developing this so called crisis in the Executive. As usual, all they care about is themselves. It is becoming increasingly clear that they do not seem to care about the thousands of people who will suffer as a result of important decisions not being taken in the Executive. Nor do they care that the North/South institutions will collapse if the Executive does not meet. Indeed, both parties are now becoming involved in an increasingly bizarre, dangerous and irresponsible game of Executive Chicken, and, while they wait for each other to blink first the rest of us can only rub our eyes in disbelief. Increasing fuel prices, a growing housing crisis, uncertainty around our children’s education, and the debacle around rural planning – these are the issues people want to see addressed. These are the issues on which Government should deliver and on which Government should be judged. The addiction to negotiation politics has dulled the DUP and Sinn Fein’s senses to realities on the ground. They continue to practice the politics of the past, unaware that everyone else wants to move on. Their tired tactics cannot provide solutions to the problems of today and tomorrow. Ministers like Margaret Ritchie have proposals which can directly help the most vulnerable in the coming months. They need to be approved by the Executive. This is what real leadership is about. The DUP and Sinn Fein need to do the job they were elected to do. The Executive must meet on Thursday. It must roll its sleeves up along with the thousands of people across the North who are struggling to make ends meet. The hands off, ‘let them eat cake’, attitude of the DUP and Sinn Fein is as abhorrent as it is irresponsible.” |
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