Elected representatives in Derry and Strabane have voted to defer the current pay uplift awarded to councillors and will now write to the Department for Communities asking that an independent review panel determine if it is appropriate for them to vote on their own level of pay.
Derry City and Strabane Council will write to the Permanent Secretary for the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) demanding an end to what it was claimed was the demonisation of low paid, hard-working and long-serving roads workers.