Applications have opened for a new £50,000 grant aimed at helping larger businesses affected by the pandemic. The scheme was…
Finance Minister Conor Murphy
Durkan welcomes belated launch of JobStart youth scheme
SDLP Social Justice spokesperson Mark H Durkan has welcomed long overdue launch of the labour market intervention ‘JobStart’, a scheme…
‘Hundreds of social enterprise jobs can be created’
POLICY changes being implemented by Sinn Féin Finance Minister Conor Murphy can help create hundreds of social economy jobs, Martina…
Anderson: Positive talks on £4m civil service hub
SINN Féin’s Martina Anderson has welcomed the commitment by Finance Minister Conor Murphy to establish a civil service hub in…
McLaughlin: Derry businesses locked-out of Coronavirus support
SDLP Foyle MLA Sinead McLaughlin has written to Finance minister Conor Murphy to ask that he urgently reviews arrangements for…
‘We need recovery strategy that maximises protocol advantages’
SDLP Economy Spokesperson Sinead McLaughlin has said that the Finance and Economy Minister must urgently design and implement a recovery…
Coronavirus: More people in North can meet outdoors
THE Stormont Executive has held its meeting to review lockdown restrictions. As reported here earlier, the lockdown will be extended…
North to get further £300m to tackle pandemic
THE North of Ireland is to get a further £300 million from the British government to tackle the Coronavirus pandemic.…
Durkan: Ministers sit idly while UC claims soar
SDLP Communities Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has said that while the number of Universal Credit claims has more than doubled,…
£175m to buy PPE for North’s health service
THE Stormont Executive has agreed how to allocate £226.5m in funding, including £190m which is going to the Department of…