DUP assembly member Brian Kingston said the party will question O'Neill on Wednesday.
O'Neill is facing calls to correct the record at Stormont regarding the age of the teenage boy who received inappropriate messages
On Monday, the first minister and Sinn Féin vice president told the assembly that party membership files said the boy was 17 at the time.Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is expected to correct the record officially in the Dáil on Tuesday. McDonald confirmed on Monday that she will respond "fulsomely" to the boy's account of the matter and would correct the Dáil record to confirm the right age.
Writing on X, formerly Twitter, DUP MLA Phillip Brett said he has "submitted an Urgent Question request to the Speaker" to recall O'Neill to the assembly chamber on Tuesday.DUP assembly member Brian Kingston added the party will question O'Neill "at the scrutiny Committee for The Executive Office on Wednesday regarding all safeguarding and misconduct matters of public concern".
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