Northern Ireland politicians clashed on health service funding, the stability of Stormont and the merits of Irish unity in the second major TV debate of the General Election campaign.
The debate line-up comprised three party leaders – the DUP’s Gavin Robinson, Alliance’s Naomi Long and the SDLP’s Colum Eastwood – while Sinn Fein was represented by its South Down candidate Chris Hazzard and the UUP by its deputy leader and Lagan Valley candidate Robbie Butler. “Our plan is to have ministerial leadership that is to work with our Executive partners to agree a budget.”“I know people in Derry who are going to the credit union to borrow money for simple procedures ,” he said.
The event was billed as a leaders’ debate and host Tara Mills pressed the Sinn Fein and UUP representatives on why their leaders had not accepted the invite to attend. Mr Robinson justified the boycott, which the party ended in January, insisting progress to reduce the red tape on Irish Sea trade would “not have been made without our stance”.
Ms Long then reiterated her call for Stormont reform to remove the capacity for the largest unionist and largest nationalist parties to pull it down.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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