Despite the presence of the 'great and the good' in Belfast to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Belfast Agreement, the DUP is not for shifting its position on the restoration of the institutions.
The prime minister said the best way to honour the legacy of the Agreement was to have the institutions operating “every single year” of the next 25 and appealed to unionists to “work with us”.
All of this, of course, is directed at the DUP. But if these politicians think such exhortations will coerce the party into returning to the fold, they are mistaken. In summary, the report’s author Maura Quinn was critical of the proposed funding mechanism where €2 million a year in ring-fenced research funding was promised by Watt and Holohan in a letter of comfort to TCD, where the former CMO was to take up a professorship. The funding was guaranteed but somehow it would be subject to some form of competitive process afterwards.
So Mr Watt’s attendance at a meeting of the Oireachtas committee on finance yesterday was a much-anticipated encounter. And it produced fireworks. “Speaking at the Oireachtas finance committee hearing on Wednesday, Mr Watt said he rejected ‘most of the findings of the report’.”Miriam Lord has written of Mr Watt’s performance“The performance of Robert Watt at the Oireachtas finance committee on Wednesday afternoon was hard to credit in all its jaw-dropping swagger.
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