Debate contribution: PSNI: Holiday Pay and Pension
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
- PSNI: Holiday Pay and Pension
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5653260
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We have had active engagement, as I said, with the PSNI and the Department of Finance, because, ultimately, we will have to get the money to pay for it. I have said all along that the extent of the potential costs would far outstrip what the Department of Justice could afford to pay from within its budgetary lines. We have been clear about that from the outset. We are somewhat ahead in the process. As the Member will be aware, some of the issues — the holiday pay, for example — are not pertinent to just police officers. They affect other public servants. We happen to be slightly ahead of those other public services, so we want to resolve the issues as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in the interests of those to whom money is owed and in the interests of setting out clear boundaries around what it might look like as a wider settlement for the whole of the public sector. It is an incredible amount of money. We have already had an allocation of £119 million towards the data breach, and we talking of something in the same order for potential holiday pay, though that is a much more fluid figure. It will depend, a lot, on what the courts and tribunals rule. That is where we are. In all likelihood, it will crystallise, in year. That is why our engagement has been so intense with the PSNI on the business case and with the Department of Finance to get that approved.
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