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Reg Empey: durante i colloqui, DUP-SF mi hanno tagliato fuori

DUP-SF talks forced me out – Sir Reg

SIR Reg Empey had to leave a mammoth meeting of the executive before it ended because the DUP and Sinn Fein had gone off for extended private negotiations during the meeting, the UUP leader has said.

Reg Empey | UUPSir Reg said that the “usual routine” of side room DUP-Sinn Fein talks had left himself, fellow UUP health minister Michael McGimpsey and the SDLP’s social development minister Alex Attwood alone around the executive table for protracted periods.

As the DUP and Sinn Fein negotiated in private about the repeatedly stalled plan to create 11 “super councils”, the two UUP ministers eventually had to leave because of prior commitments, Sir Reg said.

“It was the usual routine where they clear off and leave us,” the employment and learning minister said.

“Sinn Fein are bursting to get the 11-council model through but, apart from the fact that we have never been in favour of the 11-council model, we just don’t believe that local government is ready for this at the moment.”

UUP MLA Roy Beggs said that the inability to make a decision on local government reform “will only add to the public’s disbelief at the dysfunctionality of the executive”.

“This catalogue of failure has wasted significant amounts of public money – at the very least, £9 million out of the Stormont budget,” he said.

A DUP spokesman declined to comment.

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