SIF
Video: DUP and Sinn Féin walk out during Social Investment Fund debate
THE DUP and Sinn Féin have been criticised for walking out of a discussion on the controversial Social Investment Fund (SIF).
Patrick Murphy: SIF shows misuse of public resources for electoral gain persists
WHAT exactly is the difference between allocating a council house to a 19-year-old woman in Caledon in 1968 and allocating the Social Investment Fund's £79 million of public money, on the same basis of political favouritism, 50 years later? Sinn Féin and DUP supporters will reject any comparison between the old and the new (currently suspended) Stormont.
UVF killer sat on group which awarded £881,000 from Social Investment Fund to his own project
A CONVICTED killer was employed as operations manager and lead partner in a £881,000 Social Investment Fund project as well as sitting on the steering group which awarded the public funding.
Newton Emerson: It seems cash carve-ups like SIF are all part of the peace process
The faults in Stormont’s £80 million Social Investment Fund (SIF), long criticised by the SDLP as a “slush fund”, are hardly news but a report from the Audit Office has finally made them official.
Flawed Social Investment Fund reflects badly on Stormont administration
Perhaps the most depressing aspect of the Audit Office's damning assessment of the Social Investment Fund (SIF) is that it does not come as a huge surprise.
Criticism as SIF underspend revealed
ONLY half the money allocated to Stormont's Social Investment Fund (SIF) has been spent.
UDA stage a show of strength hours after police raid home of Dee Stitt
MORE than 40 members of the North Down UDA have staged a show of strength in Bangor following Paramilitary Crime Taskforce searches of the home of leading loyalist Dee Stitt.