Alliance Party has insisted newly elected Sorcha Eastwood is committed to the Assembly after she declared being on a 'career break'
The Alliance Party has insisted newly elected MLA Sorcha Eastwood is committed to the Stormont Assembly after she declared being on a "career break".
The Lagan Valley MLA, a former councillor in Lisburn and Castlereagh, had worked for the party's deputy leader earning £31,000 a year until her election to the Assembly in May.Alliance said Ms Eastwood and fellow newly elected MLA Eóin Tennyson, who had worked for Deloitte, "have been permitted by their previous employers to take a leave of absence, given the uncertainty around the restoration of the institutions".
"All Alliance MLAs are committed to the Assembly. It is regrettable the inability and unwillingness of others to do the job they were elected to do means such precautions are considered necessary." Mr Tennyson, an MLA for Upper Bann, did not mention a career break on his register of interests, but he said he had worked full-time for Deloitte as an associate in audit and assurance services.
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