Debate contribution: Good Relations Funding
Debate contribution by Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly on .
- MLA
- Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Good Relations Funding
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5669832
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We have been trying to maintain consistency. The Member will appreciate that it would be inappropriate for the First Minister or me to interfere politically regarding individual funding applications and their scoring. All applications go through a process that is led by officials and are scored against criteria. I do not know the particular circumstances that she references. I have been pushing, across the Department, to make sure that all our funds get out in some form. If additional money can be secured within this year, we will certainly look at topping up and reopening some of those applications.
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