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THE NORTHERN IRELAND Department of Health has said 1,378 new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the past 24 hours.
A further 18 deaths have also been reported. Seven of these deaths occurred before the last 24 hours.
Last night, the Stormont Executive agreed that schools would remain closed for the rest of the month as case numbers and hospitalisation figures remain very high in the North .
In addition to the measures in schools, stay at home advice is to be put into legislation, while the Executive is also set to examine international travel advice.
First minister Arlene Foster said: “We will be putting that message of stay at home back into law again.
“The message will be stay at home unless you have a reason to leave home. Those reasons will be put into law. We think that is necessary given the huge rise in positive cases here in Northern Ireland.”
The Department of Health #COVID19 dashboard has been updated.
— Department of Health (@healthdpt) January 5, 2021
1,378 individuals have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. A further 18 deaths have been reported (7 deaths outside the current reporting period.)https://t.co/YN16dmGzhv pic.twitter.com/45rLEMa1sn
The Executive is to meet again today, when the Education and Health Ministers are to put forward a set of detailed proposals, including recommendations on this year’s exams.
The government in the Republic is also currently considering the prospect of closing schools for the entire month of January.
Listening to McGrath, you’d think the whole banks/property crash had been an unmitigated success for Fianna Fail.
@Brian Hunt: No, I think he’s saying that the €4.9bn profit has been good for the State Finances.
Personally, I think we need NAMA or another agency like that to continue with the effective management of governmental land and use it for housing.
@Cornelius Paul O Mahony: could have been more than 4.9billion profit of they weren’t giving the cheap properties to their buddies.
@Niall English: Well I’m sure you’ll pass on the evidence to the appropriate people.
@Cornelius Paul O Mahony: For God sake man, are you that gullible
All the profits are due to property price rises. It could’ve been much higher too if they had sold at market prices
@Mick Duvanny: Are you advocating that property be withheld from the Market?
Namas remit is pretty simple, get rid of toxic assets and hopefully make a profit. They did that, and now they are selling landbanks owed by the State for building social housing.
I thought we didn’t have enough social housing and it shouldn’t be built for profit.
I wonder….? Is there an itemised report of how the €4.9 billion has been spent? Will we learn how much of the said amount went into the pockets of the controllers, to support of actual development and construction of new homes, wasted due to malfeasance and to support the blunders of the children hospital? Probably not… Such information is privileged like that of RTE.
@Seriously Really: The 4.9bn is profit or expected profit from Nama.
Are you asking how the government has spent it?
If so, I’d imagine running the country. Ya know, social welfare and the like, perhaps you need to look through both Namas financial statements, available free online, and the monthly Exchequer reports on spending again available free online.
But I doubt you’ll do that .
@Cornelius Paul O Mahony: Hey Paul… Thanks for the info… Indeed, I will look the information up. I didn’t know such info was publicly available.:-)
@Seriously Really: All there from inception and it’s a difficult read, I’d concentrate on what assets the bought initially and follow how they grew or shrank, sales of anything should show up in cash again but don’t expect the figures to match exactly
@Seriously Really: Good luck
Nama who gave all the best coastal properties to the buddies at a huge reduction
@john mac: Evidence?
Nama says NO
When you get stuff for nothing it’s easy to make profits.
@Padraig O’Brien: and give it away for sweet Fa to the right people
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