ACE Schemes

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 February 1987.

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Photo of Clare Short Clare Short , Birmingham, Ladywood 12:00, 12 February 1987

May I ask the Under-Secretary of State and the Secretary of State most sincerely to review the decision to sack the six ACE workers at St. Matthews community centre on unspecified security grounds? The workers concerned consider this to be a smear on their character and the work that they have been doing in providing an advice centre and an Irish language nursery. Promotion of the Irish language is supposed to be part of the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Those workers have been told that if they move to other premises they may be able to continue their work, but there are no other premises. Will the Minister agree to meet their trade union to reach a reasonable settlement, and will the Government stop smearing those workers and the work that they have been doing for so long?