Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris recently talked with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar about bringing back Stormont. This discussion happened during the introduction of a new financial support program for Northern Ireland.
Mr Heaton-Harris had a meeting with the Prime Minister of Ireland in Belfast on Monday at the Peace Plus event.
The plan, which is paid for by the UK, Ireland, and the EU, will provide £858m for Northern Ireland and the counties near the border.
The money will be given to people from 2021 to 2027.
The money news is happening when Northern Ireland doesn’t have a working government.
It fell apart last year when the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) pulled out because they were mad about the trade rules between Northern Ireland and Great Britain after Brexit.
The DUP has stated that they do not think the Windsor Framework deal, formed between the European Union and the UK Government to improve the Northern Ireland Protocol, adequately tackles their worries.
“A clear answer”
Mr Varadkar and Mr Heaton-Harris quickly talked about the ongoing deadlock in Stormont. Meanwhile, Maros Šefčovič, the chief negotiator for the EU, stated to journalists at the event that the framework offered a final solution to all unresolved matters.
Mr Šefčovič said that both the UK government and the European Union know that they have reached their limits.
The UK government is giving £730 million to the Peace Plus scheme.
Jayne Brady, who is in charge of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, and Paschal Donohoe, who is the Irish Public Expenditure Minister, are also present at the event.
Leo Varadkar, who is the Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister), is in Belfast on Monday to announce some money that will be given.
Mr Varadkar was supposed to express Dublin’s worries about the UK government’s contentious Legacy Bill when he met with Mr.
It will pass its final stage in the House of Lords this week, even though political parties and victims’ groups in Northern Ireland are against it.
The Irish government has said that it might take the UK to court over the law.