Toxic Sinn Fein veto aids criminality
28 January 2013
Statement by TUV Leader Jim Allister:-
“True to form, Sinn Fein in the executive has vetoed approval for a legislative consent motion to permit the National Crime Agency to operate in Northern Ireland.
“The National Crime Agency, as successor to the Serious Organised Crime Agency, is being set up under the Crime and Courts Bill, presently before Westminster. It will tackle organised crime, defend our borders, fight fraud and cyber crime, and protect children and young people. Organised crime costs the UK up to £40b per year.
“Yet, if Sinn Fein gets its way the NCA will be blocked from operating in Northern Ireland because they are preventing the necessary legislative consent motion from coming before the Assembly. Once more Sinn Fein’s anti-British agenda is facilitating criminality and the perverted provision of a Sinn Fein veto in Stormont allows it to succeed.
“When devolution was restored and, in particular, when policing and justice was devolved we were told all were signed up to full support of the law and the fight against crime. Well, it seems not, because it appears Sinn Fein would rather have organised crime operating in South Armagh and elsewhere than the NCA.
“It typifies the dysfunctional chaos which passes for government in Stormont that Sinn Fein can hold us all to ransom on this issue. The challenge, now, is what do those, who like to pretend they control Stormont, intend to do about it.”
