Debate contribution: Schools: Mobile Phone Pouches
Debate contribution by Mr Paul Givan on .
- MLA
- Mr Paul Givan
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 14 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Schools: Mobile Phone Pouches
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5685606
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Text
I am not sure what planet the Member is on; it is certainly not planet Northern Ireland. I do not know what the funding of "millions of pounds" relates to. No such funding is being provided. None has been given to any schools. One school has not —
The Member does not want to know the answer to his question, which was not based on any evidence. Millions of pounds are not being spent on mobile phone pouches. If he is being critical of —
If he is being critical of a school's decision on how it spends its money, that is an attack on that school.
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