Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
Debate contribution by Mrs Naomi Long on .
- MLA
- Mrs Naomi Long
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 30 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5653208
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The Member will be aware of the dire funding situation for the Department of Justice and the PSNI. Unless and until the Department receives higher levels of funding from the Executive and, in turn, the Executive receive higher levels of funding from Westminster commensurate with our level of need, it will be hard to achieve what the Member suggests. We have to make difficult calls between whether to have more police officers to police the community and engage at the neighbourhood level or to spend money on other projects at ground level. It is a challenging situation. The work that PCSPs do is certainly valuable. I do not want it to be damaged or frustrated in any way, but there is a real challenge when it comes to the funding available and how far we can stretch it.
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