Sinn Fein and how do they form a government dilemma

She has just dealt with that in the assembly.
Yes she did employ him, all on the public record.

This isn't going to go away anytime soon.

Quite the opposite in fact.

For someone supposedly under pressure she was calm and very assured in the Assembly.

Answered any question asked of her.
Of course we will get the 'she didn't answer questions' which is more of the usual 'they aren't the answers we want' objections.

Robust statement from MLMD. This is what you want to see from a leader. Take action when someone does wrong or admits wrongdoing. Accept that there are issues and sort the issues in protocols and procedure out.

I think those genuinely concerned about child safety will want the whole issue looked at the same way.
Because the fact is, this could happen again the way it is.

I think MLMD allowed MoN stand in the Assembly first for good reason. She’d be accused of undermining the First Minister had she gone earlier.
I said earlier that if MoN or MlMD had done anything wrong to aid McMonagle they needed to go. And that the failures of protocols and processes needed to be addressed.
Good to see her recognise that party processes failed and need fixing.

Compare and contrast to other parties with admitted 'wrongdoers' among them. Was a full review of how things are done within those parties announced with the implicit acceptance that the way things are done are not right?

Whatever you think of MLMD she has taken responsibility here for failings and is taking action.

I see Nuala McAllister of the Alliance now talking about a review of how the whole safeguarding apparatus works and the need to also review that, to ensure this cannot happen again. Because AFAICS it could quite easily happen again. AccessNI and the UK system only operates for 'regulated positions' which a Press Officer doesn't belong to. To me that is a dangerous gap if child safety is your concern.

How can you be balanced about agregious child sex abuse facilitating ?

 Let's have a big cover-up is MLMD's message.

Independent inquiries can't be announced by single parties. All responsible political parties can do is accept that there have been failings and take action within their own parties.

As well as taking immediate action against the perp and those who wrote the references that's strong leadership and as Alex Kane observed to a disappointed Nolan, this robust action will likely bring this to a close politically.

The protocols were ignored here blanch. The leadership were not informed by two press officers about what they were doing.
You have to ensure when there are failings in your party that you action them to ensure they cannot happen again. When somebody does the wrong thing or admits wrongdoing you action it and sanction it. You don't dig the heels in, defend it and claim that no wrong was done.