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Responding to the Public Accounts Committee’s latest report on the restoration of the Parliamentary estate, FDA National Officer Wynne Parry has called for the government to take “decisive action”.
FDA Assistant General Secretary Lauren Crowley and Head of Organising and Learning Deri Bevan attended the launch of the National School for Government and Public Services on behalf of the FDA.
As the political temperature rises in the lead up to Northern Ireland’s May election, the FDA’s National Officer for Northern Ireland Robert Murtagh has once again called on MLAs to “keep civil servants out of the political crossfire.”
