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Stormont Snippets Stormont Snippets Delivering Accountability Allister opposes Marie Stopes Clinic Nov 2012 The following opinion piece by out? Will they be subject to was screened on Channel 4 – Jim Allister MLA was published external monitoring or will in spite of widespread by the Daily Mirror: people be expected to accept opposition and disgust. the word of this unashamedly ―If, as Marie Stopes claim, pro-abortion group that it is their centre will operate within operating within the confines Of course Marie Stopes and the law there is no need for it. of the law? Will they adhere to Ms Purvis argue that they are Official Department of Health the policy change which is to only ―pro-choice‖. The reality figures show that the average be brought in shortly by the is that the unborn child has no number of lawful terminations Health Minister requiring that choice in the matter. in Northern Ireland is 43 per the reason for any termination year. is recorded? In response to a question tabled by Cross-Bench peer Thus in those rare Many people will, I suspect, Lord Alton of Liverpool it was circumstances where the share my belief that this move recently revealed that an in- continuation of the pregnancy is not about opening a sexual creasable 6.4 million unborn could result in a threat to the health clinic but rather about children have been aborted in wellbeing of the mother introducing abortion on England and Wales between abortion is available, free of demand by the back door. 1968 and 2011. Just 0.376% charge, under the NHS. Marie of those abortions were Stopes claims that they will be The position of Dawn Purvis is carried out to save the life of Inside this issue: offering the same service but a matter of public record. She the mother. will expect people to pay for it. has long campaigned for the Rates Crippling 2 extension of the 1967 There is no appetite for the The question is – why would Ballymena Abortion Act to Northern Abortion Act – which Marie someone pay for a service Businesses Ireland. Stopes happily operates - to which they would receive for be introduced in Northern free? Similarly, Marie Stopes pro- Ireland and even if there was, Call for fair play for 2 There are other questions vides abortion services in the most avid pro-abortionist North Antrim which Marie Stopes has to Great Britain where abortion would have to admit that address. Will they be on demand is available. Back Ronald Reagan was probably publishing the figures in 2010 they went so far as to telling the truth when he said: "I've noticed everyone who is Causeway Hospital 2 detailing the number of produce a TV advert for abortion has already been to be Downgraded terminations which they carry promoting their services which born." by DUP Minister? Were Poots and Atwood asleep at the wheel? Executive 3 Two new revelations in the on abortion. ―To ask DHSSPS what steps Complacent on Marie Stopes controversy were taken since the minister Economy leave both Ministers Poots Secondly, it now appears a became aware in January and Atwood with questions to change of use planning 2012 of the intention to open Smithwick Shines A 3 answer. application by MSI sailed a Marie Stopes Abortion Clinic Light Into Provo through in the spring on the to ensure adequate regulation Secrets First, it has emerged that fast-track streamlined system, was put in place and why was Minister Poots knew as long without a single Councillor in an unregulated context Sinn Fein Exposed 3 ago as January 2012 that Belfast raising any issue. The allowed to continue.‖ Marie Stopes International streamlined procedure is for over Welfare (MSI) was in contact with RQIA non-contentious applications; Reform about a proposed facility in opening a 'medical' facility to PRIORITY Wr Q The Case Against 4 Belfast. What did he do? It's perform abortions in a city an Education and now clear monitoring centre office block is hardly ―To ask DOE why was the Skills Authority regulation is inadequate to non-contentious! change of use application to control this clinic, so, why facilitate the Marie Stopes were 9 months allowed to tick Jim Allister MLA has therefore Abortion Clinic deemed non- by with nothing put in place? tabled the following questions contentious and processed by This inaction suggests serious to the two ministers:- way of the streamlined proce- dereliction of duty in planning dure, with minimal opportunity how to deal with a project PRIORITY WR Q for consultation." designed to challenge our law Rates Crippling Ballymena Businesses Local TUV MLA Jim Allister has empty speaks to both a deep improvement, with a fall in established through Assembly recession and a failure by vacant premises from 109 to Questions that since government to re-energise the 104. September 2011 the number economy. I believe high rates ―These are 786 businesses of vacant business premises are a big contributor to this What is undeniable that used to offer employment in the Ballymena borough has sorry state of affairs. and today lie shuttered. While is the impact MLA risen from 445 to 490. Jim Allister is ―Across the three council Stormont boasts of its rates Commenting Jim Allister districts of North Antrim, relief policies, the harsh reality having. He is like a stated: Ballymena, Ballymoney and on our high streets is of an hawk to the chagrin Moyle, the number of vacant unequal struggle between ―This 10% rise in just one year, of OFMDFM. Don't business premises has risen rising overheads and falling from an already high base, is from 746 to 786, with profits. Painting up empty we need more shocking and indicative of an Ballymena by far the worst. In shop windows may make Allisters? economy in continuing Ballymoney it is pretty much things look better, but it is an decline. To find almost 500 as we were with a rise from inadequate response by - EamonnMallie businesses premises in this 192 to 194 and in Moyle there government to a deepening once thriving hive of has been a marginal crisis.‖ commercial activity lying Call for fair play for North Antrim In an Assembly debate on the ―In my constituency of North I heard another Member economy local TUV MLA Jim Antrim, we have some great question whether there is Allister questioned why North gems of industry. Long may equality of access to funds Antrim was not getting its fair they be with us, and may we across Northern Ireland . It share of Invest NI‘s loan and be spared from the can be said that you have to growth funds, citing only globalisation attraction of apply, but Invest NI has a “Jim Allister was first £43,000 received in the some of them to elsewhere. bounden duty to encourage, out of the blocks to constituency from the However, for small and nurture, mentor and make attack the (Marie Agency‘s spin out funds, and medium-sized businesses, two sure that applications are why in 5 years North Antrim things concern me. A couple brought along. Stopes) clinic” has only been the object of 2 of months ago, I asked the Minister for figures on the Is that happening equitably? - Irish Times visits arranged by Invest NI for potential foreign investors. amount of money from I ask that in the context of the start-up funds that was going fact that I discovered not so In a speech addressing the to my constituency. Out of the long ago that, in the past five international context of £7·5 million from Invest NI's years, there had been but two, economic downturn, Mr access to finance strategy, a if I recall correctly, visits to Allister picked out the derisory, negligible £43,000 of north Antrim by foreign European Central Bank for the Northern Ireland spin-out companies brought by Invest particular mention and funds had gone to North NI, looking to invest in the criticism. Antrim, and nothing at all at area. Just two in five years! In the course of his remarks that stage had gone there Mr Allister said, from Co-Fund NI. “Imagine what the Causeway Hospital to be Downgraded by DUP Minister? parties could do if they TUV Leader Jim Allister has transferring responsibility to that this is the direction in showed the same level accused the health minister of the Western Trust, if that were which the Minister wishes to of commitment and moving to rundown the to work better.‘ move and that the scene is Causeway Hospital to the being set to downgrade the integrity.” ―Interestingly, DUP colleagues point that it is a ‗mere satellite Causeway in this fashion. followed up by peddling the outpost of Altnagevlin‘. idea: Mr McQuillan MLA asked I put it to the Minister if he the minister to ‗outline the was listening to the -Alex Kane Mr Alister hit out at Edwin Poots saying: benefits of transferring the stakeholders, as expressed at responsibilities of the several public meetings, he ―In the course of a statement Causeway Hospital from the would be underwriting, not regarding the hospital Mr Northern Trust to the Western undermining the Causeway. Poots said: Trust?‘ and George Robinson The gameplan to rundown acute services at the ‗I am clear that there is merit made a similar point. Yet, a Causeway was very clear from in examining the benefits of few months ago such Mr Poots‘ declaration that strengthened networks politicians were marching to ―There will be a gravity pull between the Northern and ‗Save our Hospital‘! towards Altnagelvin Hospital Western Trusts or by possibly ―It is, therefore, clear to me Executive Complacent on Economy TUV Leader Jim Allister has unemployment benefit in stands up? accused the Enterprise Northern Ireland has risen by Minister of complacency 4.8% while during the same I can believe that we are prob- following her claim that the NI period the figure fell by 1.4% ably leading the way in terms production sector was across the UK as a whole.
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