Debate contribution: Programme for Government Commitments: Executive Delivery
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
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Programme for Government Commitments: Executive Delivery
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5669904
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It is hugely difficult at the moment. We do not have a Budget. I want a Budget, and there needs to be a Budget as soon as possible. As I have outlined, the implications of agreeing an inadequate Budget are sweeping and damaging cuts across every Department, including and particularly Health, Education and Justice. We cannot stand over that, and that is why we are appealing to the UK Government to work with us. We need transformation. Progress has been made, and there is much more to do. We need to get to a sustainable position of efficient, effective public services and sustainable finances. However, we need the support to get there. Any idea or proposal that tries to sustain huge reductions in expenditure in-year is simply impossible. It would mean cuts that would have a detrimental impact on every single family across this place. Of course, we are doing everything that we can to push the UK Government for a better funding arrangement and to get the Budget agreed as soon as possible.
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