Tuesday 1 February 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has outlined areas where he believes the Executive’s draft budget can be improved. He said he hoped the Executive would work to arrive at a final budget that the SDLP could support. more »
Monday 31 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has said that work needs to be started on the proposed new Derry to Belfast bypass along the A6 as soon as possible, to improve the roads and access through County Antrim. more »
Monday 31 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns was representing the Northern Ireland Assembly Football Team on Friday, January 28, as they played an exhibition match against Belfast Deaf United. more »
Monday 31 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has said that he is ‘astounded’ to learn that pubs, clubs and other licensed premises collectively owe the public purse almost 10 millions pounds in rates arrears. more »
Friday 28 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has said that £87.3m of funding schools, including many in the Antrim area had saved through prudent budgeting has been lost to them by decisions made by the British Treasury. He added that the Education Minister Caitriona Ruane should come clean about its removal. more »
Thursday 27 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has said the Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew must stop trying to con people that her negotiations on fishing quotas have been a success. more »
Wednesday 26 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has questioned the Agriculture Minister enquiring why a large number of livestock owners are still awaiting payment of their Single Farm Payment cheques. more »
Wednesday 26 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has said that disability organisations have told the Assembly’s DRD Committee that Conor Murphy’s proposed cuts in EasiBus and Door To Door services will make many disabled people “prisoners in their own homes” and set back disability rights ten years in Northern Ireland. more »
Monday 24 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has condemned the fish kill at Sixmilewater that has resulted in the devastation of local fish stocks. more »
Wednesday 19 January 2011
SDLP South Antrim MLA Thomas Burns has said those responsible for the creation of a Facebook page ‘Let’s get 100,000 people that want to see Neil Lennon get shot’ should be charged under hate crime legislation. more »
