Failed attempt to elect Assembly Speaker, August 2022

2 releases from 2 parties, 3 August 2022 to 4 August 2022.

Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication

1. Politics will continue to be stuck in Groundhog Day unless reforms to institutions happen, say Alliance MLAs

   • Alliance
   • 3 August 2022
   • Call for action
   • Criticises another northern ireland political party or its representatives

   Alliance MLAs Patrick Brown and Kate Nicholl say politics will stay stuck in a repeating cycle unless institutional reforms are made, after a failed attempt to elect an Assembly Speaker. Brown calls for reforms so the institutions cannot be held hostage when parties refuse to take part, and…

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2. McCusker: Stormont failing vulnerable people in our communities

   • SDLP
   • 4 August 2022
   • Criticism
   • Criticises another northern ireland political party or its representatives

   SDLP councillor Paul McCusker says the lack of a restored Stormont executive is harming vulnerable people facing homelessness, mental health and addiction problems. He criticises the DUP for blocking the SDLP's bid to elect a Speaker and calls for government-led intervention and health service…

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Parties with no matching press release found on their website

• DUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Sinn Féin: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• UUP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• TUV: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
• Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.

This does not show that a party said nothing: it may have commented elsewhere, in a release this system did not link to the issue, or in a release that has not been recovered.