..ón Pháirtí Aontachtach Uladh (
http://tinyurl.com/3a39ja):
"Commenting on recent hardline DUP comments on the Irish Language Act, UUP Deputy Leader Danny Kennedy said in a statement,
'It is strange to hear the DUP suddenly toughening up their language on the Irish Language Act. It should be remembered that this proposal came out of the blue in St. Andrews and at that time and until now the DUP did not object to it.
The UUP had settled the language issue through the Belfast Agreement. Language was to be carried through the North/South language body which comprises of the Board of Ulster Scots and the Irish Bord na Gaelige. In this set up we had an Ulster Unionist Minister having a veto over all business. This was truly accountable... '"
...ón Pháirtí Aontachtach Daonlathach (
http://tinyurl.com/2multe):
“DUP Deputy Leader and East Belfast MP Peter Robinson has accused Danny Kennedy of misleading the unionist community in relation to any Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland. Speaking today Mr Robinson said,
‘Danny Kennedy's attack on the DUP in relation to the Irish Language is deeply dishonest and a distortion of the record on this issue.
The suggestion that the DUP agreed to an Irish Language Act at St Andrews is absurd and in total contradiction to the facts. Danny Kennedy seems to imply that because the DUP were prent at St Andrews it is somehow responsible for the proposal that there should be an Irish Language Act. Does he forget that the Ulster Unionist Party were also present there...’”