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Red Lines

Casement snark

Red Lines

BBC

Government

4.674 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mark Carruthers is joined by Jayne McCormack, David McCann and MLAs Sorcha Eastwood, Mike Nesbitt and Colin McGrath to discuss Casement Park, Assembly tensions and Dublin money.

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0:00.0

Normal business has resumed. No sooner as Storm and back than our politicians are already finding reasons to step away from all those promises of bipartisanship we've heard so much about in the past two and a half weeks.

0:12.3

It's easy to make positive noises about tackling childcare provision, but the redevelopment of Casement Park is looking a lot trickier.

0:20.6

For today's redlines, we're back in the Senate Chamber up here in Parliament buildings,

0:24.8

and we've a mini procession of MLAs who'll be joining in to share their thoughts

0:29.0

on a wide range of issues over the next half hour.

0:31.7

And with me throughout, will be our political correspondent, Jane McCormack,

0:35.3

and Slugger O'Too's Deputy Editor David McCann.

0:39.3

Jane, I was trying to find a phrase to sum up the situation. I'm going to go for the casement

0:43.7

Embrolio, which is an acutely painful, bitterly complicated entanglement. I think that would do,

0:51.0

wouldn't it? Yes, I had to look up what that word meant, Mark, before we came on air.

0:55.8

But there's no better way to describe it than that, because people have talked about casement as a row.

1:01.5

This is, I think, much bigger than a row.

1:03.4

It has gone on for years that the planning's been in line for more than a decade at this point.

1:08.7

I think in recent days we have seen

1:11.2

the first and deputy first ministers trying to put on this front of a totally new, fresh start

1:16.7

and trying to make it look like they are agreed on every issue. But casement could probably

1:21.9

be the first big test of this executive. We've had both of them out this morning at a visit

1:27.0

at a shared campus

1:28.3

saying Michelle O'Neill saying look this is a flagship project we have to deliver it

1:32.3

and a little pengelli trying to devere away from any of the kind of the harsher tones around this

1:37.7

but basically saying this is all going to have to be looked at in the round and financial

1:40.4

considerations will come into this bring in, you bring in Dublin's contribution

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