Arlene Foster and former PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd gave evidence on the penultimate day of the inquiry in Belfast
felt personally upset by the attendance of then deputy first minister Michelle O’Neill at a large-scale funeral despite lock-down restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic.show first minister Arlene Foster saying she “can’t stand” on the same platform as Michelle O’Neill after the Sinn Féin minister’s attendance at the funeral of Bobby Storey.defending her attendance at the funeral, claiming there was “no dilution” of the public health message at the height of the pandemic.
“All of that had been prohibited and yet here was one of the people making the rules actually doing just that. It was a huge disappointment, personally I felt very upset about it all and I didn’t feel there was any credibility in going back to press conference at that time. "People who were involved in that have now come to that position but that was the police position before, during and after. I think it was wrong and shouldn't have happened for either the politicians or the people present. Neither do I believe that there was a policing solution to that."He said: “We find that people respond to police best at times when there is time to explain, understand and move forward together.
Other parties heavily criticised the use of the peace process veto tool, which was designed to protect minority interests, in the context of a health emergency. “I think it was a key decision for a lot of people in Northern Ireland that we were going to take their livelihoods away again.”Baroness Foster has said no other DUP ministers agreed with a claim made by former Stormont minister Edwin Poots that Covid-19 was more prevalent in nationalist areas in Northern Ireland.
Mr Poots was a central figure in the internal DUP revolt that effectively ousted Baroness Foster as party leader in 2021. He was subsequently elected DUP leader but his tenure proved short-lived, resigning after just 21 days in the job following another internal revolt. "The actual advice we were given in terms of close contact services was that it would cause .05 to R. We felt it was an important and key issue as defined by the Belfast agreement.""It was a huge disappointment and caused massive damage to the credibility of the Executive," Mrs Foster said.
"It was happening and that was it. Later on, there was more discussion about how the virus was transmitted, but certainly not at that time.
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