Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Ms Aoife Finnegan on .
- MLA
- Ms Aoife Finnegan
- 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 5674478
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Do you know what? Not at the minute. I do not know whether the SDLP is aware of this, but the Bill, as drafted, could give the DUP access to veto and allow it to hold back yet another area of progressive policymaking. When Minister Archibald set out to promote regional balance through tourism expansion and cross-border cooperation with Ireland's Hidden Heartlands, she met political resistance through amendments tabled by the DUP. The DUP has made a job out of stopping progressive legislation and is currently blocking furthering the rights of workers by preventing the 'good jobs' Bill moving from the Executive to the Assembly. For too long, communities like mine, such as —
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