Recall Total
| 14:51 UK time, Wednesday, 6 August 2008
The SDLP leader Mark Durkan alarmed MLAs and staff at Stormont (and those in such exotic locations as Kuala Lumpur) with his suggestion that the Assembly be recalled immediately. A collective sigh of relief could be heard on the hill when it emerged he doesn't have the 30 signatures he needs to force a return (due to the fact the Executive had failed to meet since mid-June.)
Even if he did, the assembly chamber is being refurbished. So the assembly would have had to gather in the Great Hall - and that I'm told would have taken three days to set up.
Presently, the assembly recess ends on August 31 when committees are due back. The first sitting of the Assembly is not until September 15.
I'm 
© MMIX~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~58~RS~)
Comments
Sign in or register to comment.
This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.
Please tell me it's Iris!
Complain about this comment
RJ
Your Post No 1 seems to be causing problems for the Moderators.
I hope you haven't been ride about again.
Susie
Carryduff
Complain about this comment
RJ
Corrected version of Post no 3
Your Post No 1 seems to be causing problems for the Moderators.
I hope you haven't been rude about Iris again.
Susie
Carryduff
Complain about this comment
RJ
I can't understand why this blog blocks comments that we all make in good faith. This is a platform to share what we make off the goings on of our elected ones but when Iris makes her comments they are all over the press. Why block our comments? We has bloggers should have our say!! Free Speech.....
Complain about this comment
In reply to Susie, post no. 3...
Were you up all night eathing Bushmills chocolate?
To be honest folks, the censors have spared my blushes.
I thought Kuala Lumpur was in Thailand, and made a comment about the well-known transgender population in that country, wondering which of our MLAs had a better chance than normal of encountering them.
Had it been published, Malaysians everywhere would have been indignant, and rightly so.
Complain about this comment
This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the House Rules.
View these comments in RSS