Committee chair cuts Stormont live feed when complaint about her is raised
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00:00I'm taking you back to chairperson's business. There's two quick issues that I wanted to raise with you.
00:04No, no, no. Chairperson's business is for me to bring.
00:10Lennox Matters arising if you wish to put it on that.
00:13So last Friday in the Nolan Show, a presenter read out a statement which said that there was a press release that had come from yourself.
00:20Yes. In a personal capacity. No, it didn't come from, it came from the party, but it didn't come from this office, this committee.
00:26Well that statement referred to you and your capacity of chair of the committee.
00:31So it did to me, it came across from the Nolan Show that was issued on behalf of this committee.
00:38In my capacity, I used that phrase, wasn't it?
00:44Certainly the way it was portrayed by the Nolan Show, it came across as if it was from this.
00:49It'll be better if you don't listen to that stuff. I know, I know.
00:52Well, I would be of the opinion that if it came from your party or from you,
00:58that there is correspondence that goes from the party to the Nolan Show to correct the record on that,
01:04because it certainly came across on Friday morning.
01:06Well, that's your interpretation. What's your next point? Because genuinely we're going to move on.
01:11So last week you read out correspondence at this stage and set a precedent.
01:18And in the correspondence this week, there has been a letter sent to the clerk and it's about yourself, Chair.
01:29I'm going to stop. Can we put this in private session because I'm going to stop you right there.