The powerful DUP figure who has been at the right hand of every DUP leader for 15 years has admitted that his party broke the law in appointing party members to lucrative special adviser posts.
Sinn Féin circumvented a high profile law which meant that those with serious criminal convictions could not act as Stormont special advisers – and top civil servants knew of the situation, Timothy Johnston has said.
In the latest contribution to our series, the former bomber SHANE PAUL O'DOHERTY says that the primary problem with the Sinn Fein/IRA entity is its lies and its biggest lie is the lie of the necessary armed struggle (Link to the rest of series beneath the article):
Jonathan Bell was a minister who was viewed by party colleagues as being "superficial" and who did not have the temperament necessary to hold ministerial office, Timothy Johnston told the RHI Inquiry.
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The powerful DUP figure who has been at the right hand of every DUP leader for 15 years has admitted that his party broke the law in appointing party members to lucrative special adviser posts.
Sinn Féin circumvented a high profile law which meant that those with serious criminal convictions could not act as Stormont special advisers – and top civil servants knew of the situation, Timothy Johnston has said.
Jonathan Bell was a minister who was viewed by party colleagues as being "superficial" and who did not have the temperament necessary to hold ministerial office, Timothy Johnston told the RHI Inquiry.
Timothy Johnston told the inquiry that he had never asked two other Spads to liaise about the RHI scheme or told one of them that there would be no cost controls on the scheme.
