Debate contribution: Lord Mayor Portrait: Police Investigation

Debate contribution by Mr Brian Kingston on 24 November 2025.

MLA: Mr Brian Kingston
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 24 November 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Lord Mayor Portrait: Police Investigation
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5254253

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First Minister, I think that there is a good relations angle to and consequence from it. Indeed, the junior Minister was present at the event. Given that the Sinn Féin chief whip is quoted in a witness statement as saying that the employee made:
"no admission of being at the event",
and given that there were a large number of Sinn Féin members in attendance, including, as I say, the junior Minister, surely it is not credible for Sinn Féin to claim once again that it did not notice its former employee present there.

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1806/22-27.

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