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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
David Young

Government urged to direct civil servants running Stormont departments

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The UK Government must intervene and provide ministerial direction to civil servants tasked with making “invidious” political decisions in Northern Ireland, a trade union boss has urged.

General secretary of the FDA union Dave Penman has written to Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris expressing concern about the position senior civil servants have been placed in amid the current powersharing impasse at Stormont.

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