DUP defends government funding going to group linked to UDA chief

The DUP has defended government funding being given to UDA linked groups for the second time in a week. Last Tuesday the BBC's spotlight programme revealed how public money was going to groups which have paramilitary ties. During that programme First Minister Arlene Foster defended the funding.

And now the DUP chair of the assembly's finance committee, Emma Little Pengelly, has, also, defended the funding. Almost 2 million pounds of social investment funding is to go to Charter NI which has links to the UDA.