ENVIRONMENT MINISTER LEAVES SWEENEY ON HIS TOD
Commenting on this morning’s announcement by Environment Minister Arlene Foster to refuse the planning application at the Giant’s Causeway put forward by developer Seymour Sweeney, Ulster Unionist North Down MLA Alan McFarland said,
“What a farce. After being ‘minded’ to grant this application at the tail end of last year, the Minister, given the acres of negative publicity surrounding the Causeway site and the whiff of sleaze surrounding the lobbying done on behalf of Mr Sweeney by her colleague and fellow Minister Ian Paisley Jnr. has now refused the application.
This whole saga surrounding the Causeway site and how the planning application was being dealt with has been a stain on the DUP for months now. It is therefore unsurprising that the Minister has decided to limit any further damage to her and her party by refusing the application. After months of courting it appears that the DUP have left Sweeney on his tod.”