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First Walkout

Mark Devenport | 16:25 UK time, Thursday, 31 May 2007

Handbags at Dawn on the Culture Committee today when the Vice Chair Ulster Unionist David McNarry walked out in protest at the way the Chair, Sinn Fein's Barry McElduff was handling his demand for an inquiry into the current consultation on an Irish language bill. The deputy Chair accused the Chair of making things up as he went along. The Chair said the Deputy Chair was playing politics and didn't like "democracy in action". Afterwards both politicians said they wanted a word with the other. It's not clear at this stage if one word will be in Irish and the other in Ulster Scots.

Bizarrely, the losers in this row are the Arts Council - the Culture Committee voted down Mr McNarry's demand for an Irish language inquiry but are moving on post haste to an inquiry into funding for the Arts.

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