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Answering questions in the chamber today the Environment Minister Edwin Poots suggested that some north south ministerial face to face meetings could be scrapped in favour of more environmentally friendly ways of talking, like telephone calls or video conferences. Sinn Fein's Daithi McKay, suspicious this was a cheap political shot, reminded the minister that he is obliged to fully participate in such meetings. However when he appeared on "Stormont Live" Mr Poots claimed not to be making a purely unionist point, arguing that some British Irish meetings could be substituted in a similar way.

Neither the DUP or Sinn Fein politicians, however, would concur with my suggestion that tomorrow's St. Patrick's jamboree in Washington D.C. could be replaced by a carbon friendly "Skype" video call from Stormont Castle to the White House.

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