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Action needed to address rural mobile coverage - Erskine

Fermanagh and South Tyrone DUP MLA Deborah Erskine has secured Assembly support for a motion calling for the Infrastructure Minister, John O’Dowd, to take steps to support the roll out of mobile network coverage across Northern Ireland, and work to improve the planning process which is currently slowing down applications.

Health Minister should withdraw Public Health Bill Consultation

DUP Health Spokesperson Diane Dodds has written to the Health Minister Mike Nesbitt saying it would be in the interests of all for him to bring forward a new consultation paper on the Public Health Bill. Her letter highlights vagueness and imprecision in language used within the document and the Minister's own comments about the mandatory vaccination element of the proposals.

Border poll conjuring trick fooling no one - Frew

DUP MLA Paul Frew has said that recent comments by Mary Lou McDonald regarding a future border poll represent a desperate attempt by the Sinn Fein President to distract from the party's declining support in the Irish Republic and confusion over policies such as immigration.