{"id":322434,"date":"2026-02-05T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/322434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:12:13","slug":"michelle-oneill-and-emma-little-pengelly-first-and-deputy-first-minister-to-appear-before-scrutiny-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/322434\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle O&#8217;Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly: First and deputy First Minister to appear before scrutiny committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly (Liam McBurney\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/32c90a8d-6591-4549-b5b8-04298eca57f8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly (Liam McBurney\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Michelle O\u2019Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly\u2019s appearance before the Executive Office scrutiny committee descended into heated exchanges and name-calling on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At one stage the First Minister hit out at the TUV\u2019s Timothy Gaston\u2019s \u201cnonsense\u201d that led to him being suspended from the Assembly for two days, stating: \u201cI\u2019m your First Minister whether you like it or not\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly (Liam McBurney\/PA) Michelle O\u2019Neill and Emma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[26869,9,10,78965,13,14,6,155481,11,12,15,16,6019,5,155482,101039,47,155484,155483,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-322434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-andrew-madden","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-emma-little-pengelly","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-jamie-bryson","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-michelle-oneill","tag-news","tag-paula-bradshaw","tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","tag-sinn-fein","tag-the-executive-office","tag-timothy-gaston","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116020559470506165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}