Sinn Féin has secured a recall of the Stormont Assembly in an attempt to elect a new Speaker to enable members to implement legislation to introduce an opt-out organ donation law
Sinn Féin has secured a recall of the Stormont Assembly in an attempt to elect a new Speaker to enable members to implement legislation to introduce an opt-out organ donation law.
The DUP has already made it clear it will block the nomination of a Speaker and has accused Sinn Féin of blackmail and"stunt politics". In a letter to DUP members over the weekend, party leader Jeffrey Donaldson made it clear that this one will also fail and that his party's year-long boycott of power-sharing will continue until its concerns about the Northern Ireland Protocol are resolved.
Mr Donaldson said he is tabling an amendment to legislation at Westminster that would enable Northern Ireland Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris to introduce the necessary legislation in the absence of a functioning Stormont Executive. It was a compromise to prevent a hard border with checks on goods crossing from Northern Ireland into the Republic of Ireland and the EU's Single Market.But the British government accepted that it would stay aligned with the EU’s Single Market rules for goods.
He said the party whips had agreed that the debate"should be mindful that many people watching the sitting have a personal connection to the sensitive issues at stake".
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