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A Fishy Flap

Mark Devenport | 17:28 UK time, Tuesday, 22 May 2007

A bit of a flap when the Assembly debated the fishing industry this evening. The new Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew wasn't there. Some unionists objected to her nominating her party colleague Conor Murphy as a substitute. But it was hard for them to work up too much of a head of steam since Ms Gildernew is in Washington representing the Executive at a dinner promoting food prepared by four local chefs.

The DUP motion called for the creation of an all party working group on fish. That prompted Sinn Fein's Sue Ramsey to enquire whether the fish concerned would be male or female. Her point being that when Sinn Fein called for an all party working group on women to be set up last week, unionists argued there were too many all party groups already in existence.

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