On Friday’s BBC Nolan Show, Alliance MLA Nuala McAllister said that Mr Gaston “has been difficult in the past in terms of the way he has approached” matters. Advertisement Advertisement In recent weeks the Executive Office Committee chair Paula Bradshaw has clashed with the TUV MLA when he has attempted to scrutinise witnesses. On Wednesday, the TUV man attempted to question Sinn Fein junior minister Aisling Reilly on whether she had seen or spoken to a Sinn Fein press officer – at a Stormont event – who was suspended after the party discovered he was being investigated for child sex offences.
Michael McMonagle was later convicted. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Paula Bradshaw of the Alliance Party did not facilitate Mr Gaston’s attempt to question the junior minister – allowing the First Minister to answer instead.
Ms O’Neill said “I think I’ve already dealt with the question chair, to be fair”. Paula Bradshaw interjected to say “I think you have too, yes”. Timothy Gaston says Alliance don’t have a right to silence him for being “difficult”.
Advertisement Advertisement He said Nuala McAllister’s comments “where she sought to justify the shielding of Sinn Fein over the child abuse issue by her party colleague and Executive Committee chair Paula Bradshaw by saying I am ‘difficult’ was a telling insight into Alliance’s attitude to sc.