Stormont Live
Five minutes to eight and I've just recorded a contribution to Good Morning Ulster which should be broadcast in around an hour's time. Off to Stormont soon, where the politicians have a busy day ahead of them - questions to Ian Paisley, Michelle Gildernew and Edwin Poots, an SDLP proposal for a West of the Bann economic taskforce, and a Sinn Fein suggestion that Stormont should get tax varying powers. The Scottish parliament got it, after it was supported in a referendum, but Scottish politicians have been wary of using their power to vary income tax by 3p in the pound, presumably for fear it won't go down well with the voters.
In Scotland the tax varying power has been dubbed the "tartan tax". Any suggestions for what we should call it if Stormont did get the same power?
And if you want to see Ian Paisley handling questions, most of his questiontime should be on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ1 at 2.35pm today when Jim Fitzpatrick and I return with a new series of Stormont Live. It isn't listed in all the papers, but it is on...
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The Good Friday Tax Agreement would get my vote (assuming, of course, that the committee waits until 6 April 2008 before approving!)
Shame that Stormont Live was scheduled to start 5 mins after the start of OFMDFM Question Time, so that we missed the start of it. Are there plans to rectify this in future ?