Ian Paisley, while not exactly repeating John O'Dowd's sentiments on the need to rid the North of the NIO, he did echo them. This morning Mr O'Dowd had said that £1.7 billion could be freed up from unnecessary spending on the NIO and the MOD.
Speaking after an Executive meeting at Castle Buildings today, Ian Paisley did not broach the MOD issue but he did say that the days of the NIO were numbered in the long term and that they would be scaled down in the meantime.
"We do need a Northern Ireland Office until we have everything devolved to us. It is going to be a much smaller body that's needed."
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