Beggs Warns of the Dangers of Self Praise

Following a press release by Alastair Ross MLA, in which he highlights his own voting attendance record at Stormont, Roy Beggs MLA has reminded him of the old saying "self praise is no praise".

Roy Beggs Jnr, UUP MLA for East Antrim has responded to the self praising press release in the name of Alastair Ross MLA regarding his voting record in the N.I Assembly. Roy Beggs said "Self praise is no praise at all. Figures for voting attendance do not tell the full story of the work that MLA's carry out within the chamber, in their committees or within constituencies. The figures do not take into account the amount of contribution the member has provided to debates, nor does the figure relate to committee attendance and contribution."

The UUP MLA added "The majority of votes at Stormont for which Mr Ross would have voted are not on actual legislation with most of the votes being for DUP/SF motions which are not legislatively binding."

Roy Beggs MLA went on to add "I have had the opportunity to work alongside Mr Ross on the Environment Committee at Stormont, on which he did not have the best attendance record."

"Mr Ross missed 3 meetings but also left early or missed sizeable chunks of 11 of the 36 meetings of the N.I Assembly's Environment Committee in 2009-10. This is over one third of all committee meetings, not a record that anyone should be proud of. He has a pattern of getting marked present and then leaving early."

"Again I say, beware of self praise."