Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
”Last week the Finance Minister confirmed in a written answer to me that he was taken to the funeral of IRA terrorist Bobby Storey in his ministerial car. Today Minister Ní Chuilín has confirmed that she too was taken to the funeral by ministerial car.
”While O’Neill now pontificates about the importance of wearing masks at least two her Ministerial team were transported to a funeral at which multiple breaches of the coronavirus regulations occurred at public expense. The double standards and do as I say not as I do approach of Sinn Fein is nauseating and is made all the worse by the use of public money in this fashion.
”There may be a desire within the political class to move on and forget about the scandal of the Storey funeral but this latest revelation deserves attention. There will be many who will note the contrast between the appeal of the Hume family not to go to John Hume’s funeral because of the public health risks and the disregard which Sinn Fein displayed of the general public when it came to the Storey funeral”.
Note to editors
Mr Allister’s question and the response received are as follows:
To ask the Minister for Communities whether she was conveyed to the funeral of Bobby Storey on 30 June 2020 in an official Executive car.
I was collected from home on 30 June 2020 and taken to Bobby Storey’s funeral in West Belfast by the Ministerial Car. I was later collected and taken to Stormont for Assembly business, including the Final Stage of the Housing (Amendment) Bill.