Public Affairs
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All Party Group: Fair Banking and Finance
Chair of the recently launched All Party Group (APG) on Fair Banking and Finance, Pat Catney MLA discusses the origin…
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Allister’s SPAD Bill moves to next stage
One year on from its introduction, Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister’s Bill to tighten government functions around special advisers…
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Scrutiny in the Assembly
The removal of the committee stage from all of the Bills that have been enacted in the current mandate raises…
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In defence of the Assembly
Politics Professor at the University of Liverpool, Jonathan Tonge, highlights how, despite being suspended for some 40 per cent of…
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Collective is the corrective
Collective bargaining in Northern Ireland has been in gradual decline for some time and this trend needs to be reversed,…
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Political Platform
Former Downing Street advisor and Westminster commentator Matthew O’Toole was co-opted into the South Belfast Assembly seat to replace the…
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Covid-19: Mental health impact
Newly appointed interim Mental Health Champion for Northern Ireland Siobhán O’Neill highlights the longer lasting mental health impacts of Covid-19…
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Run like Mike: Four-time Paralympic champion Michael McKillop
A four-time Paralympic gold medallist and a serial winner in the World Para Athletics Championships, middle distance runner Michael McKillop…
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A perspective on planning: Jim Mackinnon
Former Chief Planner and Director for the Built Environment with the Scottish Government Jim Mackinnon offers his observations of the…
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New Stormont Standards Commissioner appointed
In a decision agreed by all five parties of the Executive, medical law and ethic expert Melissa McCullough has been…
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