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Monthly Archives: May 2017
Ulster Unionists call for less regulation and bureaucracy for farmers
East Antrim Ulster Unionist Party MLA Roy Beggs Jr & Cllr Andrew Wilson who both have family connections to farming, called on the U.K. Government and any future NI Executive to reduce the stressful bureaucratic paperwork burden on farmers with any new support system replacing the EU Common Agricultural Policy. Mr Beggs MLA, UUP Health Spokesperson said “Work related stress is a significant issue and farming has been identified as a particularly high risk occupation. The popular image that farming is a stress free rural life is unfortunately not always the case. A recent survey involving farming families has revealed that bureaucracy paperwork required by DAERA was now causing even greater stress to farming families than the considerable financial pressures from their business. Roy Beggs said, “A comprehensive overhaul of the administrative burdens facing farmers should be undertaken to a create more user-friendly and less weighty administrative system.” According to … Continue reading
Monkstown centreclosure ‘concerning’
East Antrim Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs has expressed concern over plans to close the only remaining Education Other Than At School (EOTAS) provision in Monkstown. This Educational Guidance Centre is the only remaining EOTAS service provided within Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey. Mr. Beggs is actively involved in trying to address educational under-achievement and has visited the service. He said: “Closing the local EOTAS provision is a retrograde step. Pupils can fall out of post-primary school for complex reasons and EOTAS can play an important role in assisting them with continuing their education. “I am concerned with the plans to close the Monkstown EOTAS service and instead relay on a service provided in Ballymena. “EOTAS plays an important role in assisting alternative education and sometimes the return of pupils to main stream schooling. “Young people from Carrick, Newtownabbey and parts of Larne will have to travel the considerable additional distance … Continue reading
Beggs Questions local EOTAS closure plans
Roy Beggs MLA, has expressed concern at the plans to close the only remaining Education Other Than At School (EOTAS) provision at the Monkstown, Educational Guidance Centre, which is the only remaining EOTAS service provided within Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey. Roy Beggs MLA, Ulster Unionist MLA, who is actively involved in trying to address educational under achievement and had visited the service said, “Closing the local EOTAS provision is a retrograde step. Pupils can fall out of post primary school for complex reasons and EOTAS can play an important role in assisting them with continuing their education. I am concerned with the plans to close the Monkstown EOTAS service and instead relay on a service provided in Ballymena some 25 miles away. EOTAS plays an important role in assisting alternative education and sometimes the return of pupils to main stream schooling. Young People from Carrickfergus, and Newtownabbey and parts of … Continue reading
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United calls for end to fire attacks ‘madness’ in Larne
United calls for an end to the ‘tit for tat’ attacks which have shocked the Larne area have been issued after Friday’s arson incident . It was the 11th to have taken place in the town in just under a fortnight. A house at Walnut Park was petrol-bombed just after 8am. A mother and son were forced to flee the property after a blaze was started deliberately in the living room. The occupants were checked at the scene by paramedics although they were not injured. Detective Dunny McCubbin said: “It is believed at this stage that a petrol bomb was thrown through the front window of the house at around 8am. “The device broke the window, ending up in the living room of the property. “The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service personnel attended and extinguished a fire and made the device safe. “Our enquiries into this incident are at … Continue reading
Beggs repeats calls for Larne arson madness to stop
Ulster Unionist East Antrim MLA Roy Beggs has praised the speedy response of the NI Fire and Rescue Service in extinguishing the fire caused by the latest arson attack in Larne and called for the public to help bring ‘this madness’ to an end by providing information to help the PSNI charge the criminals involved. Roy Beggs MLA said: “A petrol bomb thrown into a home could easily result in fatalities. In this latest incident, we are fortunate that the local fire fighters quickly extinguished the fire and no one has been seriously injured. “I would call on the criminals involved in endangering life to stop before someone is killed and many lives are ruined. The public needs to assist the PSNI in tracking down those involved in these repeated attacks on property and people. This madness must stop now.”
