Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:

“Yesterday during questions to the First and deputy First Minister I asked the following question:

“As there is already a plethora of statutory protections for the so-called gay community and generous financial provision from the junior Minister’s Department for various organisations therein, why do the junior Minister and the First Minister, who once campaigned to save Ulster from sodomy, now want to introduce a sexual orientation strategy? Why do they now think it necessary?”

“The reply from Junior Minister Bell had nothing whatsoever to do with the question. Why is it that the DUP will not, or cannot, answer?”