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DUP urges Sinn Fein to explain £4m rates exemption for student apartment blocks

It follows concerns that an unresolved tax "loophole" means some student accommodation blocks do not pay rates

Belfast Live · Jan 31, 2023

Stormont catering contract awarded to firm supplying 'substandard' food to US prisons

The company has come under fire over its catering for refugees and asylum seekers in the Irish Republic and US prisoners

Belfast Live · Jan 30, 2023

New Northern Ireland planning applications portal "unacceptably poor" says architecture group

"Many functions worked better on the old system"

Belfast Live · Jan 29, 2023

Sinn Fein MPs don't need to declare party wages on register, says parliamentary standards watchdog

TUV leader Jim Allister has written to the standards commissioner questioning the "obvious loophole" in the rules

Belfast Live · Jan 24, 2023

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar stresses hard border must be avoided as UK-EU talks continue

The DUP has refused to enter the Stormont Assembly until unionist concerns are dealt with

Belfast Live · Jan 23, 2023

Can DUP be brought in from the cold to end Northern Ireland protocol row?

Party has set conditions for a deal but former taoiseach Bertie Ahern says solution is ‘not rocket science’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2023

Protocol row ‘isn’t rocket science’, says ex-taoiseach in call for solution

Bertie Ahern was speaking at the Northern Ireland Committee at Westminster on Monday.

The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2023

EU and UK negotiators must be given ‘space’ to reach NI Protocol deal

Ireland’s deputy premier Micheal Martin said both sides had to overcome challenges if an agreement was to be stuck.

The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2023

Adoption and social care legislation in Northern Ireland stalled due to Stormont's collapse

They are the latest bills confirmed to be facing delays after it emerged legislation on organ donation has been stalled

Belfast Live · Jan 20, 2023

Varadkar expresses regret that NI Protocol was imposed without unionist consent

The Irish premier said the prospect of an EU/UK deal on the contentious trading arrangements was ‘very real’.

The Independent UK · Jan 20, 2023