Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“Bad enough to sit in government with IRA/Sinn Fein under the false pretence that all their military structures and weapons were gone, but to rush back into the arms of Sinn Fein after authoritative confirmation that the IRA not only exists, but murders, has weapons and an illegal Army Council, which directs both the IRA and Sinn Fein, is political treachery.
“It says all that needs to be said about the DUP’s lust for power that hours after a report confirmed that the IRA Army Council not only existed but that it controls Sinn Fein, the DUP is back to business as usual with Sinn Fein? This from the party which claimed it only went into government with Sinn Fein on the basis of a manifesto in 2007 which stated: “All paramilitary and criminal activity and terrorist structures must be abandoned before Sinn Fein is admitted to Government.”
“TUV alone is clear about what needs to be done. The current arrangements are totally immoral and need to be consigned to history. No true democrat can sit in government with those controlled by an Army Council.
“Let the electorate be in no doubt. The DUP’s actions today show that regardless of what the IRA do the DUP will sustain them in government. Let every unionist voter remember this perfidious episode when next they vote.”