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20/06/2013
Consultation Launched To Fight For Coleraine DVA Jobs
Environment Minister Alex Attwood has revealed that the Westminster Government has now agreed to undertake consultation about the future of Driver and Vehicle Licensing (DVA) jobs in Coleraine.
Mr Attwood said: "I welcome the agreement from London today that there is to be a new consultation on the future of vehicle licensing services in Northern Ireland. Over the last two years, I have made the argument again and again with the Department for Transport and recently with Minister Stephen Hammond that there needed to be a proper consultation around the DVA jobs and a full assessment of impact.
"I welcome that my arguments have prevailed and acknowledge that Stephen Hammond has listened.
"The decision to close vehicle licensing offices in Britain has already been taken and is happening. There have been messages out of London that the same was about to happen here. The new consultation now creates space to escalate the argument that the jobs in Coleraine must be saved and that what is happening in Britain does not happen here."
(CD/MH)
Mr Attwood said: "I welcome the agreement from London today that there is to be a new consultation on the future of vehicle licensing services in Northern Ireland. Over the last two years, I have made the argument again and again with the Department for Transport and recently with Minister Stephen Hammond that there needed to be a proper consultation around the DVA jobs and a full assessment of impact.
"I welcome that my arguments have prevailed and acknowledge that Stephen Hammond has listened.
"The decision to close vehicle licensing offices in Britain has already been taken and is happening. There have been messages out of London that the same was about to happen here. The new consultation now creates space to escalate the argument that the jobs in Coleraine must be saved and that what is happening in Britain does not happen here."
(CD/MH)
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