More Tory cuts coming. What should Northern Ireland do? #BBCNolan

May 11, 2015, 08:51 AM

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The General election is over and the dust has settled. This time last week no-one was predicting the Tories would be back in power with a clear majority. So what does that mean for Northern Ireland?

The Stormont House Agreement has been hanging in the balance since March. Sinn Fein aren't happy with how people on benefits will be protected from Westminster welfare reforms.

It's now being reported that David Cameron will fast track a further 12 billion pounds of cuts to the welfare bill.

Back in April Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey said "can anyone seriously suggest that if you listen to George Osborne or David Cameron and they get re-elected in May and then decide they are going to take another £12 billion. We can't see where they are going to take this from. I can't see us as an institution being sustainable if we get that type of policy."

Sinn Fein's Jim McVeigh, SDLP MLA Fearghal McKinney, People Before Profit's Gerry Carroll and Commentator Jeffrey Peel discuss what this means for N.Ireland.