Devolved Government is the Commonsense Option - Donaldson
Fermanagh & South Tyrone Ulster Unionist Party Assembly candidate, Kenny Donaldson has said that Direct Rule has been extremely costly on the Northern Ireland public both in political and financial terms – making the return of devolved Government here ‘the commonsense option’.
In a statement, Kenny said: “For over thirty years our Region has been governed by a remote Westminster-based administration which has conclusively failed to build the Northern Ireland most people here aspire to see develop.
“Direct Rule has not served Northern Ireland well - of late the financial effects of Direct Rule have been made painfully clear - Westminster proposals to; impose unjust water taxes on our people, inflated household rates, which discriminate against many within our population, their refusal to remove the MaSN Cap on third level education places coupled with their failure to step in with innovative proposals to tackle the housing crisis this Country experiences are but an example of the gross mismanagement that administration is guilty of.”
Kenny added: “For many of our young people Northern Ireland is simply becoming too expensive to live in, their potential earning power simply doesn’t equate to their general costs of living.
“Northern Ireland needs a devolved Government, our people deserve the opportunity to hold politicians accountable for their actions. Northern Ireland faces many challenges and it is not only right but indeed, natural that these challenges are faced up to by men and women elected by the people of Northern Ireland,” concluded Kenny.