DEMOCRACY doesn’t come cheap. In fact it is damned expensive. And we’re not talking about all that ballot box nonsense that rolls around every couple of years.
No we’re talking about the cost of answering questions MLAs pose of Executive ministers.
Minister for Health, Social Services and Public Safety Michael McGimpsey revealed – in answer to a written question - that written questions cost £300 to answer and oral answers cost £925 to answer.
It also emerged – in response to a written question - that 8,160 hours have been spent answering such questions. We were going to calculate all that out, but frankly our wee pocket calculator cannot cope with sums so big.
But it did come up with one answer we were initially confused with. At first we couldn’t understand the reading; we turned it this way and that, until we accidentally read it in the mirror. The answer it seems read like this: “This is the price of accountability”.
We wonder which ministers and which MLAs will be found accountable come May 5th.
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