UUP says funding imbalance hits all communities
The Ulster Unionist Party has hit back at Sinn Féin claimed that certain Catholic areas are not receiving a fair share of investment funding.
UUP Cllr Derek Hussey said unionists living in the west of Northern Ireland suffer as much as anyone due to underinvestment.
Cllr Hussey said: "The loss of 185 jobs yesterday in Strabane textile firm, Adira, proves beyond doubt that the area is need of a much-needed economic boost. This lack of investment impacts on not just the people Mitchell McLaughlin represents but on everybody who lives in these areas.
"His discriminatory comments have laid bare the sectarian and exclusive nature of the party he is a member of."
Today the North's Federation of Small Businesses said it was seeking an urgent meeting with Invest Northern Ireland about the imbalance in its investment in border areas and west of the Bann.
