Ulster Unionist Health spokesperson, Alan Chambers MLA, has condemned Sinn Fein for their brass neck hypocrisy following Michelle O’Neill`s comments and Pat Sheehan MLA launching another attack on the public health team at Stormont`s Health Committee on Thursday.

Mr Chambers said:

“Sinn Fein are all over the place as they continue to try to play politics with the pandemic.

“Today Michelle O’Neill has singled out one party as working against the public health team and rest of the Executive, while on Thursday Pat Sheehan said at Stormont`s Health Committee that ‘it wasn’t about this party has a view, or that party has a view in the Executive’ before laying into the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser.

“Given Sinn Féin’s role in hugely undermining the public health advice in June by breaking Coronavirus regulations at the Storey funeral, they would be as well to let the Health Minister and his team get on with their jobs.

“If brass neck hypocrisy was an Olympic sport Pat Sheehan and Team Sinn Fein would surely clean up on winning a clean sweep of gold medals.

“Pat Sheehan accused the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser of a failure to provide Northern Ireland with a strategic vision for how to battle Covid-19. He seems unable to grasp the simple fact that strategies are political decisions made collectively by a five party Executive that includes his party colleagues. The public health officials he so unfairly criticised, continually offer professional advice and guidance to the Executive. It is not their responsibility how the Executive choose to interpret this information nor how they decide to implement it, or not.”