Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Pádraig Delargy on .
- MLA
- Mr Pádraig Delargy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 8 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5674294
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I thank the Member for bringing the Bill to the House, because it targets a lot of the regional balance commitments on which my party and her party agree and that other parties in the House have brought forward as well. I agree with the overarching argument that regional balance needs to be central, not an afterthought. We have talked about many of the drivers of the economy today, and I totally agree with the Member that the Department for the Economy, as she was keen to point out —
I cannot hear myself speak, Mr McNulty, if you keep speaking over me. I will continue.
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