Friday 18 May 2012
SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan has written to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith highlighting his deep concern over the government’s benefits shake-up which could hit blind and partially sighted people particularly hard – not least here in Derry. more »
Friday 18 May 2012
SDLP Welfare spokesperson Mark H Durkan MLA has said the British Government must recognise that the housing environment and access to affordable childcare is very different in Northern Ireland in comparison to London in their enforcement of welfare reform. more »
Friday 18 May 2012
SDLP OFMFDM spokesperson Colum Eastwood MLA has said the Social Investment Fund is failing to help those in hardship. more »
Friday 18 May 2012
SDLP Lower Falls Cllr Colin Keenan has said people in his community are extremely distressed after being evacuated from their homes in Hawthorn Street and Cavendish Street due to a viable device in the area. more »
Thursday 17 May 2012
SDLP Leader Dr Alasdair McDonnell has spoken of his ambition for the agri-food sector in the North to be the envy of Europe. more »
Thursday 17 May 2012
SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has welcomed the decision of The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) for its players to wear black armbands during the Italy match at Euro 2012 to mark the 18th anniversary of the Loughinisland massacre. more »
Thursday 17 May 2012
SDLP South Belfast MLA, Conall McDevitt, has launched a consultation seeking views on a reduction in speed limits from 30mph to 20mph on designated unclassified roads[1] as part of his bid to introduce legislation through a Private Members Bill in the Northern Ireland Assembly. more »
Thursday 17 May 2012
SDLP Victims’ spokesperson, Colum Eastwood, has said that a political accommodation on the hill at Stormont cannot act as a substitute for the healing of the many wounds from our conflict. more »
Thursday 17 May 2012
SDLP MP for South Down Margaret Ritchie has hit out at Minister for Health Edwin Poots’s apparent inactivity in dealing with the European Commission ruling that reclassifies desinewed meat as machine separated meat. more »
Thursday 17 May 2012
SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan has condemned last week’s abduction and beating of a 28-year-old man in Derry who was subsequently abandoned across the border in Donegal. more »