{"id":226481,"date":"2025-06-30T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226481\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:20:17","slug":"michelle-oneill-and-emma-little-pengelly-blocked-release-of-54k-us-trip-bill-for-a-year-after-civil-servants-prepared-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226481\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle O\u2019Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly blocked release of \u00a354k US trip bill for a year after civil servants prepared answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Hundreds of questions pile up on Stormont leaders\u2019 desks because they can\u2019t agree an answer on even the most basic topics\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly meeting US President Joe Biden last year.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0feeaff9-0e2a-4d4a-8406-abbb8818ea7b.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)\">First Minister Michelle O\u2019Neill and Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly meeting US President Joe Biden last year.<\/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 were responsible for blocking the release of details about the cost of a high-profile US trip.<\/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)\">The First Minister and Deputy First Minister travelled to Washington DC for the 2024 St Patrick\u2019s Day celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of questions pile up on Stormont leaders\u2019 desks because they can\u2019t agree an answer on even the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1999,89259,924,39256,922,714,1434,1144,39255,925,11528,27348,89258,29956,16,15,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-226481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-adrian-rutherford","9":"tag-daniel-mccrossan","10":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","11":"tag-edwin-poots","12":"tag-emma-little-pengelly","13":"tag-joe-biden","14":"tag-michelle-oneill","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-northern-ireland-assembly","17":"tag-sdlp","18":"tag-sinn-fein","19":"tag-the-executive-office","20":"tag-timothy-gaston","21":"tag-traditional-unionist-voice","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114772051528741104","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}