“I believe that the Education Minister is guilty of a terminological inexactitude”

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During a Northern Ireland Assembly debate in March this year – on the NI Education Minister’s decision to withdraw funding from the preparatory departments of grammar schools – the DUP’s Jonathan Bell was ordered from the chamber after he refused to withdraw his comment that the Minister, Sinn Féin’s Caitriona Ruane, was “deliberately mislead[ing] the House” by associating the NI Finance Minister, the DUP’s Sammy Wilson, with a report from the Assembly’s business consultancy service which had actually been commissioned by the Education Minister. In the Assembly today, the NI Finance Minister took careful aim at his Executive colleague. But what does the Assembly do with a Minister who deliberately misleads the House? Video via BBC NI’s Stormont Live.

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