Wysłany: 2020-10-30, 11:43 Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion resigns over Covid-19 grant mon
Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion resigns over Covid-19 grant money
Former Foyle MP Elisha McCallion and two other Sinn Féin officials have resigned over a failure to return money given out by a Stormont emergency Covid fund.
Sinn Féin President Mary Lou McDonald said she apologised for their "failures".
It had emerged that three Sinn Féin offices received £10,000 payments from the fund, which have since been repaid.
MP and MLA constituency offices are ineligible for the scheme.
In a statement, Ms McDonald said she had accepted the resignations of Mrs McCallion, as a senator in the Seanad (Irish Senate), as well as the chairperson of the party's Upper Bann constituency association and an official in the party's west Tyrone office.
She said she had accepted the resignation of the west Tyrone official who had failed to return the money "despite being requested to do so" by MLA for the area, Maolíosa McHugh.
'I should have taken extra steps'
Mrs McCallion apologised "unreservedly" on Thursday afternoon, saying the grant was lodged into a joint account of which she is a named signature with her husband.
"I fully accept that as a named signature on the account that I should have taken extra steps to verify this situation, before it was brought to my attention on Tuesday."
She said the money was repaid in full on Tuesday.
Payments from the fund were sent out automatically to 7,000 bank accounts, but it has emerged that some of the accounts which received the money were ineligible.
Sinn Féin said its offices did not qualify nor did it apply for the scheme.
'Censured'
The party said the funds received by three of its offices had been returned to Land and Property Services, which administered the grant.
But Ms McDonald said the money was only paid back on Monday and Tuesday of this week, months after they were received.
She said all those involved had been "censured" by the Sinn Féin Ard Chomhairle (party executive).
"Last night I accepted the resignation of Senator Elisha McCallion. She accepts full responsibility for the failure to return the grant immediately," she said.
Sinn Féin vice-president Michelle O'Neill said: "What happened was wrong. I can be no clearer than that but I do believe we moved speedily to correct what was wrong."
"We set ourselves the task of establishing the facts and when we did so - we returned the money and took action," Ms O'Neill said.
She added that she took the issue of public money and compliance with rules dictating its use with the utmost seriousness.
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