Davos O'Loan
Responding to the SDLP's calls for the Executive to show more imagination in tackling the economic downturn, former minister Edwin Poots sounded in scathing form. Mr Poots took Declan O'Loan to task for suggesting that the answer to the all our problems is building more social housing.
"With such an immense and extremely vivid imagination, Mr O'Loan should not be sitting here today; he should have been in Davos to advise the world's economists on how to progress" Mr Poots argued. "Barack Obama could do with such a man in his advisory group to help him to improve the situation in the United States of America."
Davos O'Loan, however, didn't want the DUP man to have the last word. The North Antrim MLA returned to "Mr Poots's earlier point about my alleged failure of imagination. I did not refer to the Maze stadium -- and I could have used that as a rather nice example: there was a place where there was a total failure of imagination by those who are walking away from that scheme -- but that is one point on which Mr Poots would probably agree with me."
The former champion of the Maze multi sports stadium thanked Mr O'Loan for his intervention, but seemed keener to concentrate on his argument about how spending more on housing might mean cuts in health, rather than dwelling on the painful business of Gregory Campbell sinking his precious project.
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