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BBCNEWS Newscast June 4, 2024 01:49:00

An agreement out of whether there is or not a tunnel at the present moment in time. it seems then on the face of it, there doesn t seem to be hardly any prospect at all of devolution of devolved government come back to northern ireland any time soon. given those tests, given how high that bar is, even if some sort of deal is done, it seems entirely possible the dup could still say it s not good enough for us. well, they could, of course. but the fact is it s not actually that difficult to deal with these issues. and i think it s very interesting to listen to. it must be difficult. no, no, no. otherwise it would have been sorted. well, you would think that, wouldn t you? but if you listen to people like bertie ahern and tony blair, who have been speaking. former prime ministers, ireland and uk. who were around at the time of the belfast agreement and who had to deal with huge issues at the time. and they re saying, actually, these things can be dealt with. there are solutions there, if ....

Northern Ireland , Doesn T , Belfast Agreement , Wouldn T You , Prime Ministers , Tony Blair , Bertie Ahern ,

BBCNEWS Newscast June 4, 2024 01:54:00

Dealt with the legacy of the past. we re now seeing the outworkings of that, as you know, with the legacy bill that s coming forward from the government, which doesn t have support in northern ireland and should have been dealt with a long, long time ago. with hindsight, though, was it worth, to borrow adam s language from a few minutes ago, was it worth to put the cart before the horse in that instance, to do what was done nearly 25 years ago and then address some of these profound concerns that you talk about afterwards, rather than the other way round, delaying what was this big moment for northern ireland with the arrival of devolution? well, look, ifully. ....

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BBCNEWS Newscast June 4, 2024 01:46:00

Any clues? i don t really have a sense, actually, if i m entirely honest, because if people are in the tunnel, then there s very little that s said outside of that. but i mean, it s very clear what needs to happen. and i read somewhere yesterday that people were saying, oh, well, rishi sunak will do a deal without the dup. that doesn t really work, because of course in powersharing, in northern ireland, you need the majority of unionists and the majority of nationalists to agree. and sometimes i think that that s not really understood across the uk because it is a different form of devolution. it s not the same as scotland, it s not the same as wales, it s not about majority rule. the whole point about the belfast agreement, which is 25 years old in april, was the fact that we had a power sharing arrangement. and for that to mean anything, everybody has to be not happy but content with what s going on. and what would content look like for you guys? we ve seen, haven t we, part of the ....

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BBCNEWS Newscast June 4, 2024 01:53:00

But unfortunately we don t have that, because we were out of government for three years. that has caused huge difficulties in the health service. we didn t instigate reforms that were recommended by an independent body called the bengoa review. that wasn t done and we re suffering as a result of that. so it s notjust about getting devolution back. it s about having a cohesive government that works. it is quite weird to think we ve now had more of a conversation about that issue in this studio than has been had at stormont, because there s no one there. yes! so weird. you mentioned the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. is that agreement still in good shape? because after 25 years, you d decorate your house after 25 years, wouldn t you? ijust wonder, does the good friday agreement need some tweaks or is it ok? well, it s not about tweaks. i mean, it is in severe difficulties at this present moment in time. i worry that, i mean, i didn t support the belfast agreement back in ....

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BBCNEWS Newscast June 4, 2024 01:52:00

Yeah, of course. when we didn t have government for three years over a culture act. so, i mean, let s be clear about that. the hypocrisy of some in northern ireland are not having a government now is quite stark for those of us who were out of government during that time. but we ve had a sinn fein finance minister since 2016. we had conor murphy recently. he didn t set a budget, the previous finance minister didn t set a budget. so, actually, you have to ask the question, if sinn fein are in the finance portfolio, are we actually going to have a budget? so the government are setting a budget now. it s not good. it s a real challenge for areas like education, for areas like policing. there s a real cut, and we heard today that the chief constable is saying he s going to have to cut his force down to the smallest ever in terms of the police service of northern ireland. that s not good because if you have less police, you have less policing and the people of northern ireland will not welc ....

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