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EASTWOOD: SINN FEIN AND DUP HAVE BROUGHT US TO BRINK OF DIRECT RULE

written by John October 18, 2017
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SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood said that Sinn Féin and the DUP have brought us to “the brink of Direct Rule.”

He was speaking following gloomy comments by the Secretary of State James Brokenshire that the outlook for a deal to restore power-sharing was “not positive.”
Talks between the two parties collapsed on Friday and Mr Brokenshire told the NI Affairs Committee at Westminster today that unless a deal was struck by the end of the month he would have to legislate for an Executive budget.
Sinn Fein’s leader in the North Michelle O’Neill has denied reports in The Irish Times that she was ready to do a deal with the DUP over the Irish Language Act but was slapped down by Sinn Fein leaders on the party’s Ard Comharile..

Mr Eastwood said: “After 10 months of no government, after two elections and after month upon month of talking it appears that Sinn Féin and the DUP have brought us to the brink of Direct Rule.

“It appears they have used their big mandates to achieve one thing – bringing British Direct Rule to Northern Ireland.

“While crises engulf our health services and our schools, they have talked for month after month and have only delivered failure.

“In particular for the nationalist community, after years of trying to bring power back to Irish soil in order that local people could make local decisions, it should be a source of great anger that all of that power and progress is now being handed back to a Tory/DUP government in London.

“Talk of a slow ‘glide path’ towards more British Government involvement in the North should fool no-one. A British Government delivering a budget in Westminster is Direct Rule. It cannot be painted or presented in any other way.

“In that context, if no deal is to be reached, it is critical that the Irish Government sticks by the position of Simon Coveney in ensuring that there can be no ‘British only Direct Rule’.

“Both traditions must be represented in the politics of the North – that is the basis of all our political agreements.

“In the absence of an Executive and Assembly, giving full and proper representation to those traditions falls on both the Irish and British Governments,” added the Foyle MLA.

EASTWOOD: SINN FEIN AND DUP HAVE BROUGHT US TO BRINK OF DIRECT RULE was last modified: October 18th, 2017 by John

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