However, the TUV have said that if he had, he would now have been expelled.
Jim Allister, the TUV MLA, is unconvinced by what he heard at the weekend.
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The TUV leader, Jim Allister, reckoned trying to match the Irish Republic's 12.5% rate was "chasing a moonbeam".
On Monday, MPs took evidence from Alliance, the Greens, the TUV and UKIP.
The TUV's Jim Allister said there seemed to have been a great fear of discussing the proposal with staff.
In reply to a question from the TUV's Jim Allister, the minister said the college was "on a journey".
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Tweed, who played rugby for both Ireland and Ulster, is a former member of the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV).
The 53-year-old, who played rugby for both Ireland and Ulster, is currently suspended from the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) party.
In the assembly on Tuesday, TUV leader Jim Allister called for Mr Bain to resign from the "divisive, controversial" Parades Commission.
He stood successfully for the TUV in the 2011 local council elections.
The TUV's Jim Allister was opposed to the devolution of taxation powers.
The bill was introduced by TUV leader Jim Allister, in response to Mary McArdle's appointment as special adviser to Culture Minister Caral Ni Chuilin.
The TUV's Jim Allister said Stranmillis and St Mary's University Colleges in Belfast had expressed a preference to be reallocated with the Department of Education (DE).
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He joined the TUV in November 2010 after defecting from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) but when charged with the offences, his membership was put on hold.
Tweed joined the TUV in November 2010 after defecting from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) but when charged with the offences, his membership was put on hold.
The First Minister Peter Robinson likened TUV leader Jim Allister to a Japanese solider who remained in the jungle even though the Second World War was over.
He is a Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) councillor in Ballymena.
In an intervention, Jim Allister of the TUV warned that the motion potentially covered all forms of personal injury compensation and not just for injuries resulting from motor accidents.
She complained it was men who were bringing forward the amendment which now carries the names of two other MLAs - the TUV's Jim Allister and the DUP's Jim Wells.
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The TUV's concerns are political as well as economic, as they fear the harmonisation of tax rates on a north-south basis could be the thin end of a wedge towards an all-Ireland tax policy.
The TUV's Jim Allister said fuel prices were "horrendous" and were "hurting all our constituents" but he questioned where the money would come from to fund a drop in taxes if fuel duty was devolved.
Outside in the great hall, Mr Allister hogged the microphone so long that Peter Robinson, pointing to his watch, eventually led a phalanx of his MLAs in more or less nudging the TUV leader out of the way.
The TUV leader said there had been 818 responses to a six-week public consultation on his bill and said the Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NIACRO) was the only organisation to raise any significant opposition.
With the DUP seeking to capture the unionist centre-ground, Tom Elliot's assertion that he wouldn't serve under Sinn Fein as deputy first minister sounded like another signal that the UUP is shifting into TUV territory (in fact the mathematical possibility of this outcome appears so remote as to be nigh on impossible).
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