11 members of public come forward
Eleven members of the public presented 17 petitions of grievance on our national day in St John's.
Among them was former Chief Minister Tony Brown, alongside Castletown commissioner Colin Leather to protest the decision to move the Lieutenant Governor's swearing-in ceremony to Douglas this year.
Others included a request to reform the complaints procedure against politicians, to calls for heightened international aid provision.
Also the subject of petitions were reforms to children’s care, free TV licences and train travel for over 75s, recognition for the Island mother of a Suffragette, government accountability, drainage improvements, and tougher sentences for animal cruelty.
Kate Beecroft MHK presented a petition on behalf of the LibVann party secretary’s father, Jonathan Irving, who wants a public inquiry into the collapse of his building firm Street Heritage.
Petitioner James Corlett wants to make consultant clinicians' pay public:
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