Culture Minister Caral Ni Chuilin said her department would continue to work with Disability Sports NI "to ensure we provide not just the minimum standards, we provide the best standards".
Gerry Adams has personally criticised Owen Paterson and there are strong rumours of tensions between Caral Ni Chuilin and the NIO behind the scenes of the recent Olympic Torch relay.
However, take a look at Sinn Fein's other ministers and advisers, such as the convicted IRA members Martina Anderson and Paul Kavanagh, and Culture Minister Caral ni Chuilin who is herself a former prisoner, and you can see why republicans aren't in any mood to budge.