Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:
“In topical questions to the Health Minister today I established that the £11 million per year cost of the proposed Irish language legislation and related provision could employ no fewer that 275 band five nurses.
“It is nothing short of scandalous that the Executive was established on the basis of priorities which are so obviously out of kilter with the priories of the ordinary man or woman in the street.
“Does Northern Ireland really need Irish language provision more than it needs an additional 275 nurses?”