THE WEEK AHEAD
Monday 18th May
Executive Business: None
Committee Business: Ad hoc Committee: Draft Private Security Industry
Question Time: OFMDFM / DARD / DCAL
Motions: Health Provision for Older People
Restructuring of the Executive & Assembly
Tuesday 19th May
Executive Business: None
Motions: Byron Review: Protection of Children
Juvenile Justice System
Special Educational Needs
Adjournment: Flooding in West Belfast
AND FINALLY….
The danger of putting your head above the parapet is that, unless you’re suitably attired, you’re in danger of – in the vernacular – getting ‘cleaned’. Such was the response the SDLP’s budget proposals received this week from the Assembly’s wannabe stand-ups.
Peter Weir (DUP, North Down) returned to form, stating that to compare the document to “voodoo economics…would be an insult to the witch doctors of the island of Haiti”. John O’Dowd (Sinn Fein, Upper Bann) mocked SDLP calls for a new committee to deal with the recession: “a GAA club sets up a committee to fund raise for a sports day, but an Administration certainly does not..to tackle the world’s worst-ever economic crisis.”
Even Edwin Poots referred to the document as the ‘Beano’ and the MLAs on the SDLP benches as Dennis the Menace and the Bash Street Kids. Ouch, ouch and ouch. Next thing you know they’ll be suggesting the authors get jobs as MPs’ book keepers.
