Debate contribution: Community and Voluntary Sector: Funding

Debate contribution by Miss Deirdre Hargey on 29 September 2026.

MLA: Miss Deirdre Hargey
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 29 September 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Community and Voluntary Sector: Funding
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5761424

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Thanks very much, Minister. As you said, the move from the European social fund (ESF) to the Shared Prosperity Fund and now the local growth fund has resulted in a 77% cut in employment and skills support programmes, which has led to significant job losses and over 8,000 people losing support. You highlighted some of the work there, but will you outline what work you are doing cross-departmentally with other Ministers to mitigate the impacts of those cuts and losses in the time ahead, as well as what you have done previously?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 4015/22-27.

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