Guernsey Awayday
Five of our ministers are off to Guernsey for the 14th meeting of the British Irish council. the meeting is to be hosted at the rather nice looking four star The BIC was brought in by the Good Friday Agreement as a political balance to the cross border bodies and the North South Ministerial Council. But given the tight economic times, the DUP's Simon Hamilton has just put out a statement questioning continued spending on quangoes, commissions and cross border bodies. Maybe both the north-south and the east- west trips should be replaced by less expensive, less time consuming conference calls.
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