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 5674558
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I thank the Member for giving way. I want to come back to the Executive point, because it is the one that I am really concerned about. When you say that you are going to check how the Executive are performing against one standard, you are setting yourself up for failure, because you are holding the fact that there is a multi-party Executive who have varying degrees — I would say very little degree — of belief and desire to achieve regional balance. You are holding the Executive to one standard when you have Sinn Féin Ministers driving forward and trying to achieve regional balance and other Ministers who are intent on not doing that.
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