Thursday 10 April 2014 RELEASE: IMMEDIATE Equality Commission report is a damning indictment of those responsible for ‘McCreesh’ play park decision –Danny Kennedy Ulster Unionist Party MLA for Newry and Armagh, Danny Kennedy, has strongly criticised Newry and Mourne District Council after an Equality Commission report found that the Council failed to comply with its own Equality Scheme when deciding to retain the name The Raymond McCreesh Park for a Council-owned childrens play park in Newry. Mr Kennedy said: “The findings of the Equality Commission’s report has serious implications for those on Newry and Mourne council who were complicit in the flawed and unlawful earlier decisions which permitted a children’s play park to be named after a dead terrorist. “The report is quite clear that the Council was more focussed on process and on maintaining the name of the play park than on paying due regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity and regard to the desirability of promoting good relations”. “That is a damning indictment of those who took the earlier decisions to rename the play park. The council must now take immediate steps to rescind the earlier decisions, but more than that, there must be sanctions, including surcharges taken against those Councillors who were responsible for this disgraceful episode.”
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:33:51 +0000
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