TUV Leader Jim Allister has slammed Security Minister, Paul Goggins, for bungling and indifference over recent republican terrorist threats to TUV members.

In a statement Mr Allister said:

“Late last year I and some colleagues had occasion to ask the NIO to make assessments under their Limited Home Protection Scheme, following republican terrorist death threats. I am appalled to have received a letter from Paul Goggins concerning a colleague in which the security assessment relied upon does not even relate to him, but to someone else.

“If Paul Goggins read the letter before he signed it, then it is hard to understand how he made such a schoolboy error. It hardly instils confidence in the manner or seriousness with which the NIO addresses what should be important issues.

“How could a Security Minister supposedly giving a considered response on a serious issue not even notice that the assessment relied on didn’t even relate to the person in question?”