15 October 2009 Edition
Policing and Justice transfer - time to move ahead
15 October 2009
NEGOTIATIONS on the financial package for transferring Policing and Justice powers from Britain to the North of Ireland concluded over the past week in Downing Street. The Sinn Féin focus in this negotiation was to ensure that a future Policing and Justice department in the North would have an adequate budget while at the same time ensuring that other departmental budgets would not be affected by transfer. This has been achieved. Free article