Debate contribution: Race Relations Framework
Debate contribution by Ms Michelle O'Neill on .
- MLA
- Ms Michelle O'Neill
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 22 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Race Relations Framework
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5638085
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It is important that anybody who holds an elected office be responsible in how they speak. It is really important that they be responsible for the messages that they communicate, because those messages can add to the tensions on our streets. Anybody in the House who does anything to inflame tensions should be ashamed of themselves. Anybody in the House who holds elected office who does not set out the facts as they are and instead gets involved in misinformation and disinformation should also be ashamed of themselves. We all want to see controlled immigration; we need the Irish Government to work with the British Government and vice versa. There are issues that need to be resolved, and we have raised them with the responsible Ministers because it is not a devolved matter. I encourage the Member, even at this late stage, to do the decent thing and the right thing, because the society that I live in is not reflected in the images that were beamed all around the world. That is not who we are. The vast majority in the Chamber will agree with that.
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